Quotes with evil

Quotes 281 till 300 of 383.

  • Edmund Burke The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Stuart Wilde The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.
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  • Aleister Crowley The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Boris Sidis The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
    Philistine and Genius (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Alan Cohen The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Albert Camus The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Carl Romanelli The Senate needs to protect the interests of the American people and the world community, not provide political cover to President Bush. It's not enough to call Saddam Hussein evil incarnate.
    on U.S. Senate hearings into President Bushs planned invasion of Iraq
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  • Aldous Huxley The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Joseph Brodsky The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Eric Hoffer The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Gerard De Nerval The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, divine.
    The Practice of Psychotherapy (1953) p. 364
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bobby Fischer The United States is evil. There's this axis of evil. What about the allies of evil - the United States, England, Japan, Australia? These are the evildoers.
    Press conference in Iceland, March 25 2005 [28]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Samuel Butler The want of money is the root of all evil.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Malcolm X The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.
    Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Joseph De Maistre The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Caleb Cushing The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Publilius Syrus The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Albert Einstein The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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