Evils Quote by John Ruskin

“Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.”

— John Ruskin

There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real…

— Benjamin

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Imaginary evils are incurable.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.

— Earl Nightingale

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view…

— Anonymous

We've come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed.

— George W. Bush

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is…

— Dean Koontz

Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

— John Ortberg

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

— Simone Weil

Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

— Carl Jung