Quotes with evil

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
  • Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
  • Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
  • There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
  • People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
  • Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
  • The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Cato the Elder We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
    French revolutionary and writer (1749 - 1791)
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  • Henry David Thoreau There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Joel Rosenberg Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.
    Joel Rosenberg
     
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  • Buddha A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Benjamin Haydon All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Blaise Pascal All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Simone Weil Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Anne Rice Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Franz Kafka Evil is whatever distracts.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • August Strindberg Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Seneca It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Thornton T. Munger Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo The greatest evil is physical pain.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Heywood Broun The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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