Evil Quotes - Page 14

• All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

  Sophocles

  Men, Wish, Cures

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Moral, Constitution, Curse

  Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Discourses on the Christian revelation, viewed in connection with the modern astronomy: To which are added, Discourses illustrative of the connection between theology & general science”, p.328

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• No evil is great if it is the last.

  Cornelius Nepos

  Lasts, Ifs

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• If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.

  Girolamo Savonarola

  Fighting, Enemy, Victory

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• Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

  John Milton

  Men, Mind, May

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.321

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• Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Hate, Philosophical, Hatred

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.61, Race Point Publishing

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• I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

  Marie Curie

  Science, Thinking, Discovery

  "White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage and Misadventures". Book by Robert B. Taylor, 2008.

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• The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer. In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for bread, and expect to get it, and to ask daily for forgiveness, for deliverance from the evil one, and for other needs, and daily to get the answers they sought.

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

  John R. Rice (2000). “Prayer: Asking and Receiving”, p.237, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

  Homer

  Men, Deeds

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• Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wickedness, Benefactors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.36, 谷月社

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• All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

  Walter Raleigh

  Wise, Men, Politician

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• Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

  Philip James Bailey

  Hands, Left

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.40

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• All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Jekyll, Humans, Human Beings

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• When your party is controlled by a billionaire rootless international financier who expresses 'no sense of guilt' for collaborating with the Nazis, you might want to ease up on lecturing the rest of us about the evil rich.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Guilt, Ease

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• Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open? Have you ever been so angry that you couldn’t look in the mirror for fear of finding the face of evil glaring back at you?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Struggle, Mirrors, Nuclear

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Cures, Cases

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• Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Self

  William Law (2001). “An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy; A Collection of Letters; Letters to a Lady inclined to enter the Romish Communion, Volume 9”, p.54, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

  Alain Badiou

  Pressure, Individual, Interest

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• The world is a dangerous place to live

  Albert Einstein

  Dangerous World, Apathy, Politics

  Joseph Eger, Albert Einstein (2005). “Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change”, Tarcher

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• It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Gratitude, Lessons, Compensation

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• The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Integrity, Ethics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Oil, Water, Criticism

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• The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Religious, People, Religious Love

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• Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Desire, Wealth, Aspiration

  Wallace D. Wattles (2013). “Think Yourself Wealthy”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.

  Sallust

  Light, Darkness, Doe

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