Evil Quotes & Sayings :: Finest Quotes

~ Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. ~

~ Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. ~

~ Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. ~

Barrie Sir James

~ The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ~

Hannah Arendt

~ Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery. ~

Matthew

~ A baseball manager is a necessary evil ~

Sparky Anderson

~ Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it ~

La Rochefoucauld

~ If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture. ~

Audrey Foris

~ If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture. ~

Audrey Foris

~ My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television. ~

Alice Walker

~ Tigers, lions, elephants, bears,Snakes and all forms of enemies,The guardians of the hell worlds,Evil spirits and cannibals ~

Shantideva

~ Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess. ~

Heinrich Heine

~ Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face ~

Nelson DeMille

~ Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them. ~

Voltaire

~ There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives? ~

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

~ Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. ~

Edmund Burke

~ Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need ~

Voltaire

~ The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. ~

Richard Hofstadter

~ Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. ~

Doug Horton

~ The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ No evil is intolerable but a guilty conscience. ~

William Ellery Channing

~ Conservative: a statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as istinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it. ~

Albert Einstein

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

Winston Churchill

~ Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. ~

Thomas Carlyle

~ Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings. ~

Helen Keller

~ The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed. ~

Stephen Ambrose

~ Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late. ~

Arthur Somers Roche

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