Connected Quote by Maimonides

The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief…

— Maimonides

“Ascribe both to God alone, and look upon the person administering it as simply the vicarious instrument of God, by which the Lord sitting…

— Martin Luther

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

— Thomas Jefferson

“[A]ll experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to…

— Declaration of Independence

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

— Juvenal

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

— Agatha Christie

The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing,…

— Maimonides

The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against…

— Maimonides

All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence,…

— Maimonides

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

— Bertrand Russell

Imaginary evils are incurable.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach