Evil Quotes - Page 16

• Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his Reason furnishing Means to achieve them. To train this Animal, and make him amenable to Order; to inure him to a Sense of Justice and Virtue, to withhold him from ill Courses by Fear, and encourage him in his Duty by Hopes; in short, to fashion and model him for Society, hath been the Aim of civil and religious Institutions; and, in all Times, the Endeavour of good and wise Men. The aptest Method for attaining this End, hath been always judged a proper Education.

  George Berkeley

  Education, Wise, Fashion

  "A Discourse Addressed to Magistrates and Men in Authority: Occasioned by the Enormous License, and Irreligion of the Times". Book by George Berkeley, 1738.

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• It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil.

  Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton

  Punishment, Duty

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• Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.

  Moses Finley

  Greek, Common, Language

  "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 44, 1985.

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• It is not only spirits who punish the evil, the soul brings itself to judgment: and also it is not right for those who endure for ever to attain everything in a short time: and also, there is need of human virtue. If punishment followed instantly upon sin, men would act justly from fear and have no virtue.

  Sallust

  Men, Soul, Needs

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• Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

  Studs Terkel

  Banality, Subjects

  Studs Terkel (1980). “American Dreams: Lost and Found”, p.21, The New Press

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• The future will be no primrose path. It will have its own problems. Some will be the secular problems of the past, giant flowers of evil blossoming at last to their own destruction. Others will be wholly new.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Flower, Past, Blossoming

  "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, en.wikiquote.org. February 4, 1923.

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• The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Needs, Lawyer

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• She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

  Pericles

  Men, Fame

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• Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

  Bill Vaughan

  People, Weakness, Looks

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• Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Exercise, Thinking

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• What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

  Jack Vance

  Pain, Men, Obedience

  Jack Vance (1981). “Star King”, p.36, Spatterlight Press

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• The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

  Adam Smith

  Violence, Injustice, Ancient

  Adam Smith (2008). “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition”, OUP Oxford

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• Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

  Mark Twain

  Half, Good Intentions, Results

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• Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

  Robert Frost

  Eye, Looks, Mood

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway, oh no, this is the road to hell.

  Chris Rea

  Hell, Mobile, Freeways

  Song: Road To Hell part 1 and 2, 1989

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• Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Men, Justice, Communism

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• Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

  Rudy Rucker

  Running, Our World, Rude

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. November 2, 2002.

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• Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.

  Karen Russell

  Loss, Spinning, Sometimes

  "What Author Karen Russell Knows For Sure About 7 P.M." by Karen Russell, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

  Stephen King

  Opinion, Dark Tower, Young

  Stephen King (2003). “Wizard and Glass”, Viking Press

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• Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Passivity Is, Bully, Abuse

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• It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

  Thornton Wilder

  Beauty, World, Bent

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• I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Next, Saws

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.248, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

  Colum McCann

  Men, People, Stupidity

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.128, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Believe, Men

  "Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches".

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• Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Drama, Views, Play

  "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam" by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.

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