Evil Quotes - Page 12

• I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Evil Government, Long

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy”

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• No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Taken, Eye

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.166, Aeterna Press

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• Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

  Linus Torvalds

  Technology, Microsoft, Linux

  Linus Torvalds‏ @Linus__Torvalds, twitter.com. January 29, 2013.

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• Evil events from evil causes spring.

  Aristophanes

  Spring, Events, Causes

  Aristophanes, Thomas Mitchell (1820). “The comedies of Aristophanes”

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• He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

  Hesiod

  Inspirational, Doe, Harm

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• See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Rohypnol

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Speak No Evil

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• I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

  Kato Kaelin

  Money, Thinking, Roots

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• Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Spring, Deeds, Spontaneous

  "Coloquio de los Perros". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, 1613.

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• Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Pride, Envy

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song VI, 74, 1321.

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• Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

  Epictetus

  Betrayed, Libertarian, Habit

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.179

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• There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

  William James

  Healthy, Individual, Force

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• The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

  A. J. Muste

  Mean, Survival, Democracy

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• No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Happiness, Mistake, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Religion, Morality

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.221

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sad, Peace, Truth

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• We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

  Tony Blair

  Our World, History, Tragedy

  Statement, 11 Sept. 2001

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• We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

  Jimmy Carter

  Veterans Day, Peace, Children

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Life, Doors

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Vengeance, Good Against Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.49, Xist Publishing

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• Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

  Hesiod

  Men, Cities, Suffering

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• Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

  Tryon Edwards

  Two, Choices, Goods

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.197, Ravenio Books

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• Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

  Jerry Garcia

  Two, Choices, Voting

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• But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Cold, Enough

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

  Simone Weil

  Suffering, Together, Common

  Simone Weil (1998). “Simone Weil”

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• The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

  Sophocles

  Nurse, Soul, Wickedness

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