Evil Quotes

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G. J. Warnock: “That it is a bad thing to be tortured and starved, humiliated or hurt, is not an opinion; it is a fact. That it is better for people to be loved and attended to, rather than hated or neglected, is again a plain fact, not a matter of opinion.”

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Louisa May Alcott: “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.”

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Aristotle: “Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”

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Sam Harris: “What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?”

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William Ellery Channing: “Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see in suffering and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr. : “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

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Margaret Mead: “It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”

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Rabindranath Tagore: “And Joy is Everywhere;

It is in the Earth's green covering of grass;
In the blue serenity of the Sky;
In the reckless exuberance of Spring;
In the severe abstinence of gray Winter;
In the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame;
In the perfect poise of the Human figure, noble and upright;
In Living;
In the exercise of all our powers;
In the acquisition of Knowledge;
In fighting evils ...

Joy is there Everywhere. ”

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld: “The evils we do to others give us less pain than those we do to ourselves.”

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Eric Hoffer: “Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.”

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Epicurus: “Is god willing to prevent evil but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him god?”

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Michel de Montaigne: “Wickedness sucks in the greater part of its own venom, and poisons itself therewith.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.”

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William Shakespeare: “Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil;
With them forgive yourself.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “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. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”

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Baruch Spinoza: “Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.”

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Aldous Huxley: “At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.”

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Rene Descartes: “The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”

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Mairead Maguire: “We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.”

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A. J. Muste: “The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.”

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Ernest Becker: “In seeking to avoid evil, [humanity] is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is [our] ingenuity, rather than [our] animal nature, that has given [our] fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.”

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Epicurus: “Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.”

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Baruch Spinoza: “Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

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Pascal: “Man is neither angel nor brute, and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.”

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Paramahansa Yogananda: “Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.”

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Blaise Pascal: “I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. ”

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Joseph Conrad: “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”

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Paul Ricoeur: “To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.”

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James Baldwin: “Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.”

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