Quotes with evil-doers

Quotes 101 till 120 of 385.

  • John Locke Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Plautus Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Aldous Huxley Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Boethius Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book 4, Prose 2, 524. Translated from Latin by Ric
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
    Leviathan (1651) XIII
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Desmond Tutu Goodness is stronger than evil; love is stronger than hate; light is stronger than darkness; life is stronger than death; victory is ours through him who loved us.
    Speech 23-10-1998
    Desmond Tutu
    South African cleric and human rights activist (1931 - 2021)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Thomas Paine Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • David Gemmell Hate is the father of all evil.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Machiavelli Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Joel Hawes He that cannot decidedly say, ''No,'' when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Augustus William Hare He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Buddha He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Martin Luther King He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Boris Johnson Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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