Anatole France Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

  Anatole France

  Evil, Stupidity, Doe

• Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

  Anatole France

  Nature, Evil, Principles

  "The Revolt of the Angels".

• It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

  Anatole France

  Life, Nature, Believe

  Anatole France (2015). “The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France”, p.130, 谷月社

• For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.

  Anatole France

  Ignorance, Blessing, Men

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