Richard Whately Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill.

  Richard Whately

  Skills, Two, Evil

  Richard Whately (1872). “Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution”, p.29

• Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.

  Richard Whately

  Evil, Necessary Evil, Sometimes

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.92

• The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

  Richard Whately

  Evil, Infidelity, Indifference

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