Thomas Paine Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

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  Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, War, 4th Of July

  Common Sense (1776)

• Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

  Thomas Paine

  4th Of July, Government, Evil

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.15, Penguin

• Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

  Thomas Paine

  Wisdom, Country, Mean

  Thomas Paine (2017). “Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles”, p.4, Madison & Adams Press

• A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

  Thomas Paine

  Integrity, Ignorance, Character

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

  Thomas Paine

  Blessing, Government, Evil

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.15, Penguin

• One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Real, Party

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.164, Yale University Press

• The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Evil, Sacred

  Thomas Paine, Mark Philp (1998). “Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings”, p.400, Oxford Paperbacks

• Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but "show your faith by your works," that God may bless you. It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Winter, Blessing

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.53, Penguin

• The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.

  Thomas Paine

  Philosophy, Teaching, School

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.197

• Government is a necessary evil

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Evil, Necessary Evil

• It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

  Thomas Paine

  Justice Of God, Evil, Moral

• Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.

  Thomas Paine

  Evil, Poison, Use

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.101

• Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.

  Thomas Paine

  Loss, Evil, Inheritance

  Thomas Paine (2013). “Agrarian Justice”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

• It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

  Thomas Paine

  Blessing, Evil, Where You Live

  Thomas Paine (1830). “Brief sketch of the life of Thomas Paine. Common sense. Epistle to Quakers. The crisis. Public good. Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper money. Miscellaneous”, p.80

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