Benjamin Haydon Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Evil, Human Nature, Propensity

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1853). “Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter”, p.472

• No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Successful, Men, Evil

• 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

  Government, Two, Evil

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.259

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