Evil Quotes
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"Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards."
-Charles W. Chesnutt
-Charles W. Chesnutt
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."
-Ayn Rand
-Ayn Rand
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction."
-Blaise Pascal
-Blaise Pascal
"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."
-John Henry Newman
-John Henry Newman
"Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils."
-Amy Lowell
-Amy Lowell
"I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged."
-Maria Callas
-Maria Callas
"All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people."
-Henry Brooks Adams
-Henry Brooks Adams
"Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter."
-Oliver Goldsmith
-Oliver Goldsmith
"Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else."
-Mencius
-Mencius
"Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again."
-Evelyn Underhill
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