Quotes with evil-doers

Quotes 201 till 220 of 385.

  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Martin Amis Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Carl Sandburg Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Henry Fielding Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Anatole France Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • William Wordsworth Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Robert Southey Never let any man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Julius Charles Hare Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbour for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
    Julius Charles Hare
    English theological writer (1795 - 1855)
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  • J. C. Hare Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
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  • George Eliot No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Citium Zeno No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
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  • Seneca No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Seneca No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Benjamin Haydon No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Aristotle No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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