Evil Quotes - Page 4

• No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Silly, Men

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 269, 1678.

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• Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

  Carl Jung

  Darkness, Understanding, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psyche and symbol: a selection from the writings of C. G. Jung”, Anchor Books

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• Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Wickedness, Sour

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.77

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• Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Fear, Philosophical

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• Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

  Leigh Hunt

  Flower, Roots, Bitter

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• When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, Peace, Struggle

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• The end excuses any evil.

  Sophocles

  Excuse, Ends

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• An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

  Joseph Addison

  Action, Sin, Intention

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.92

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• The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.

  Patrick McGoohan

  Fighting, Minutes, Worst

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• Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Teacher, Negative, Looks

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• He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Acceptance, Historical, Wickedness

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Being Strong, Peace

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• Evil is just a point of view

  Anne Rice

  Views, Point Of View

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  False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

  Plato

  Truth, Attitude, Lying

  Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Judging, Abstract

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• Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Real, Encounters, Morality

  Oliver Goldsmith (1842). “The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: In One Volume. With the Portrait of the Author..”, p.273

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• All that the Devil asks is acquiescence.

  Suzanne Massie

  Acquiescence, Brushing, Asks

  Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

  William Penn

  Mean, May, Libertarian

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

  Ayn Rand

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.315, Penguin

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• When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

  Max Lerner

  Integrity, Two, Hatred

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• The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

  Hesiod

  Men, Evil People, Doe

  Works and Days l. 265

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• All evils are equal when they are extreme.

  Pierre Corneille

  Equal, Good Evil, Extremes

  "Horace". Book by Pierre Corneille, III. 4, 1639.

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• Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

  Jean Anouilh

  Believe, Men, Ideas

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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• Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

  Henry Fielding

  Sorry, Men, Done

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