Quotes with evil-doers

Quotes 361 till 380 of 385.

  • John Milton What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
    Original: Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg When money speaks, the truth keeps silent. Russian Proverb 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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  • Buddha When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Max Lerner When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Epictetus Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Cardinal de Retz Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Lord George Byron Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Anthony Collins Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
    Anthony Collins
    English philosopher (1676 - 1729)
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  • John Cheever Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Steven Weinberg With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
    Steven Weinberg
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics (1933 - 2021)
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  • André Gide Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Richard M. Mathews You are right on target when you say that mad scientists have a total disregard for the wellbeing of others. We don't want to spread evil; we just see no point in bothering to spread good.
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  • George Bernard Shaw You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Affleck You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • John Ruskin You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Hermann Hesse You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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