Evil Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Hesiod,
Blaise Pascal
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| Evil draws men together. |
| - Aristotle |
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| We must as second best...take the least of the evils. |
| - Aristotle |
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| All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. |
| - Edmund Burke |
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| Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. |
| - Euripides |
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| Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster. |
| - Hesiod |
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| He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner. |
| - Hesiod |
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| Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. |
| - Hesiod |
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| Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift. |
| - Homer |
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| Of two evils we must always choose the least. |
| - Thomas ā Kempis |
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| The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them. |
| - Randy K. Milholland |
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| All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil. |
| - Ovid |
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| Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. |
| - Blaise Pascal |
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| I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. |
| - Blaise Pascal |
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| Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. |
| - Blaise Pascal |
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| No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. |
| - Plato |
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| The evil that we know is best. |
| - Titus Maccius Plautus |
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| The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. |
| - Ayn Rand |
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| The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. |
| - Ayn Rand |
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| No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. |
| - Theodore Roosevelt |
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| The end excuses any evil. |
| - Sophocles |
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| Evil is obvious only in retrospect. |
| - Gloria Steinem |
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| Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. |
| - Evelyn Underhill |
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| Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. |
| - Mae West |
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