Evil Quotes - Page 19

• For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

  Aristotle

  Real, Animal, Views

  Aristotle (1987). “A New Aristotle reader”

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• Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

  Plato

  Jobs, Class, Political

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophy, Men, Names

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

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• The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Political, Worship, Hell

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.234, Cambridge University Press

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• Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.

  John Calvin

  Love, Hate, Blessing

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• I am purely evil;
  Hear the thrum
  of my evil engine;
  Evilly I come.
  The stars are thick as flowers
  In the meadows of July;
  A fine night for murder
  Winging through the sky.

  Ethel Mannin

  Stars, Flower, Night

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• But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.

  Terry Crews

  Thinking, Men, Domestic Violence

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• What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Individuality, Fundamentals, Body

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• The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an inch it is better to retreat a yard." This is called going forward without advancing, pushing back without using weapons. There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy. Underestimating your enemy means thinking that he is evil. Thus you destroy your three treasures and become an enemy yourself. When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.

  Laozi

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• ... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite must be worse: If you knew early that you had wickedness in you, you could learn to accept it, if not to wrestle against it. But if you believed that you were essentially good, then when you finally found the ocean of evil in yourself, surely it would come as a terrible shock.

  Paula Sharp

  Children, Ocean, Opposites

  Paula Sharp (2001). “I Loved You All: A Novel”, Hyperion

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• No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Warrior, Thinking

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• Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• If you try to cure evil with evil
  you will add more pain to your fate.

  Sophocles

  Pain, Fate, Trying

  Sophocles, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro (2010). “The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays”, p.40, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Dream, Clouds, Wind

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• I wanted to marry Lucifer... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force...I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano.

  Tori Amos

  Piano, Lucifer, Force

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• All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.

  Maimonides

  Religious, Ignorance, Men

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• The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Differences, Sin, Illness

  Malcolm Gladwell (2009). “What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

  Demosthenes

  Men, Veils, Deeds

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• Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

  Hippocrates

  Occupation, Idleness

  Hippocrates, Paul Potter (1984). “Hippocrates”

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• Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

  Louise Bogan

  Stupid, Stupidity, Accompany

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• Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Stupid, Differences

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• Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living things. But the interpreters of his doctrines have confounded the good and the evil principle.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Jesus, Principles

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1880). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought Together with Many Pieces Not Before Published”

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• Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since they take away the natural flare from the soul. Take it from me that all knowledge is useless until it is connected with your life, because the purpose of knowledge is nothing but to show you the splendors of yourself!

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Teacher, Giving, Soul

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• You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.

  Veronica Roth

  Mom, Forgiving, Able

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• There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Church, Tides, Needs

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