Quotes with evil-doers

Quotes 181 till 200 of 385.

  • Archibald Alexander It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Bob Thaves It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • King George III Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.
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  • Plato Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Plato Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
    Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
    French poet (1792 - 1870)
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  • Paul Gauguin Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • E. M. Cioran Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • William Hazlitt Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • George Carlin May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Blaise Pascal Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bruce Catton Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • William Shakespeare Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Aaron Hill Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Marquis de Sade Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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