Evil Quotes - Page 38

• What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spring, Power, Weakness

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.

  Posidonius

  Men, Riches, Causes

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• Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Good Life, Men, Worry

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• It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Hands, Long, Forever

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1930). “Don Quixote of La Mancha”

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• When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Mind, Way

  Thomas Jefferson (1964). “To the Girls and Boys: Being the Delightful, Little-known Letters of Thomas Jefferson to and from His Children and Grandchildren”

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• Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.

  Wladyslaw Szpilman

  Holocaust, Humanity, Earth

  Wladyslaw Szpilman (2000). “The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945”, p.177, Picador

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• If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Ocean, Heart

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• The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

  Irving Kristol

  Two, Issues, Morality

  Irving Kristol (1983). “Reflections of a neoconservative: looking back, looking ahead”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spirit, Positive Atheism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.564, Pearson Education

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• A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow

  Morris Sheppard

  Ought, Dies, Preserves

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• When we make mistakes they call it evil

  Bill Maher

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, We Make Mistakes

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• The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

  Tryon Edwards

  Destiny, Choices, Firsts

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.406, Ravenio Books

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• For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

  Dante Alighieri

  Power, Defense, Instruments

  Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

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• Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still

  D. H. Lawrence

  Rome, America, Deny

  1923 'Cypresses'.

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• Only a madman would give good for evil

  Euripides

  Giving, Madmen

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• The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.

  Barrows Dunham

  Human Nature, Humans

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• If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Blindness, Terrible

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Shadow, Literature, Good Things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.487, Library of America

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• It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

  George McGovern

  Death, Dying, Illness

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• What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.

  Lionel Blue

  Sorry, People, Done

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• Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Life, Sorrow, World

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.27

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• Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.

  Mark Twain

  Cutting, Thinking, Long Ago

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• You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Past, Hands

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Essentials of Hinduism”, p.16, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and community. And if there are crimes and evils hidden in the dark places of our society and the darker places of our consciousnesses, all the better they come to the surface to be seen, understood, confronted, and healed. If our generation is called to bear a burden of that healing, it is a powerful calling and honor and one within our capability.

  David Spangler

  Courage, Powerful, Healing

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• We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Two, Purpose

  Third Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 23 September 2003, New York, NY

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