Quotes about evil
evil operations term
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. William Godwin
evil good-and-evil
Power is not happiness.
evil progress ships
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life. William Banting
evil lazy delay
It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it. Washington Allston
evil trying schedules
I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in. Warren Zevon
evil impossible framed
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. Thomas Hardy
evil purpose sake
Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good. Thomas B. Macaulay
evil produce cures
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
evil news faster
Evil news fly faster still than good. Thomas Kyd
evil people protect
Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment. Thomas Jefferson
evil way affair
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
evil trying prohibition
We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us Thomas Jordan Jarvis
evil moral constitution
By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse. Thomas Chalmers
evil moral curse
... moral evil is its own curse.
evil anxiety over-confidence
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
evil affliction sin
There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction. Thomas Brooks
evil accepting luther
As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil." Viggo Mortensen
evil soul elements
Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish. Victor Hugo
evil desire entertainment
Bind to you friends of your own kind, friends who will encourage you, stand with you, live as you desire to live, who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment, and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist. Gordon B. Hinckley
evil sorrow
Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies. Giuseppe Mazzini
evil disappear
Evil perpetually tends to disappear. Herbert Spencer
evil soul forget
We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
evil break malady
Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another. Herman Melville
evil worst officers
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
evil risk desire
Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
evil humanity atheism
Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.
evil literature vengeance
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. Henry David Thoreau
evil tree good-and-evil
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
evil flow
Our greatest evil flows from ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
evil
Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.
evil good-and-evil doing-good
By doing good we become good.
evil flow
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
evil people innocence
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.