Evil Quotes - Page 6

• The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder.

  Inge Genefke

  Soul, Identity, Murder

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• It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

  Margaret Mead

  Honesty, Acceptance, Labels

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

  Winston Churchill

  Kindness, Inspiration, Generosity

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• The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorance, Wickedness, World

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.128

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• The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “De Officiis: (English Edition)”, p.149, LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

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• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

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• We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

  "Loving Your Enemies" by Martin Luther King, Jr., Christmas, 1957.

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• What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

  Robert Kennedy

  Overcoming Evil, Political, Atheism

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “The quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

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• The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Vengeance, Wave, Institutions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1524, Delphi Classics

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• Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stronger, Bud, Crushed

  Philippicae, V. 11,

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sad

  "Fictional character: Mahatma Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

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• One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Doe, Different

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• Of two evils, choose neither.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Two, Good And Evil

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• And out of good still to find means of evil.

  John Milton

  Mean, Find Me, Paradise Lost Book 1

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 165

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• It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

  Albert Einstein

  Real Men, Nuclear, Plutonium

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.30, St. Martin's Press

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• He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Punishment

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1853). “The future life”, p.212

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• It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Company, Extremes

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• Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm

  Brian Masters

  Charm

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• Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

  Abu Bakr

  Death, Men, Done

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• The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Be Good

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1857). “The Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.285

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• Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Money, Roots, Potatoes

  Louisa May Alcott (2012). “Little Women and Little Men”, p.98, Graphic Arts Books

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• Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

  Livy

  Gratitude, Blessed, Blessing

  Livy (1949). “Livy”

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• Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

  Gloria Steinem

  Government, Retrospect, Obvious

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.480, Open Road Media

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• Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Effort, Want, Goodness

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