Evil Quote by Nathanael Emmons Download Open image “Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.” — Nathanael Emmons ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evil Moral Moral evil Natural Nature Roots Selfishness Source
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait. — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Every person is selfish by nature, we should understand it, otherwise for whole life, we will blame people for selfish. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving,… — Walter J Chantry Copy Share Image
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention… — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share
There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here? — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share
Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as… — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, the more vital Godliness has declined. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
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