"The judge should not be young, he should……" — Plato
"The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others."
More Evil Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine