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Quotes By subject - Starting with E - Evil
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There are 39 quotes for the subject Evil
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Author: Albert Einstein
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Author: Plato
Work: Dialogues, Apology
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
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The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man.
Author: Albert Einstein
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When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
Author: Euripides
Work: Temenidae
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When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil.
Author: Lao Tzu
Work: The Way of Lao-tzu
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If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Author: Aristotle
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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.
Author: Helen Keller
Work: My Religion, 1927
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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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A Native American Elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "the one I feed the most."
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Author: Euripides
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Author: Plato
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I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
Author: Euripides
Work: Medea, 431 B.C.
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Author: Winston Churchill
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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Author: Plato
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There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.
Author: Mark Twain
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