Quotes with evil-doers

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  • Baruch Spinoza A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Joseph Addison A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Thomas Hardy A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Bodhidharma According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Thomas Carlyle All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Scott Alexander All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
    Scott Alexander
    American professional baseball pitcher (1989 - )
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Edmund Burke All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • William S. Burroughs America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Ovid An evil life is a kind of death.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Buddha An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Henry Miller Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Edmund Burke And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?''
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Cobbett Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of ''speculation''; but which ought to be called Gambling.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Mary McCarthy Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Aldous Huxley Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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