Plutarch Quotes

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

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• At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

  

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• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

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• We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

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• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

  

  Ted Dekker
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• 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.

  

  Jack Zipes
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• We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.

  

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• If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

  

  Frances Wright
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• Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.

  

  Pat Roberts
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• If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

  

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• At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.

  

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• 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
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• If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
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• It is only when the partisan shouting stops that we can hear each other's voices and concerns.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• You are physically up for scrutiny by everyone and you hear everyone's opinion.

  

  Karlie Kloss
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• If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

  

  Wayne Rooney
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• The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

  

  Ted Nugent
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• I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.

  

  John Ortberg
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• Are we lost, or are we found at last? On earth we strive for our various needs, because so goes the fundamental law of man. Aloft, at least for a little while, the needs disappear. Likewise the striving. In the thoughts of man aloft, food and evil become mixed and sometimes reversed. This is the open door to wisdom. Aloft, the earth is ancient and man is young, regardless of his numbers, for there, aloft he may reaffirm his suspicions that he may not be so very much. This is the gateway to humility.

  

  Ernest K. Gann
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• Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.

  

  Dennis Cardoza
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• Our aim has also been to find a design that will begin to repair both the wounded cityscape and our wounded souls, to provide a place for the contemplation of both loss and new life.

  

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• Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

  

  William Empson
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• The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

  

  Plutarch
  • Evil
  • Suffer
  • Hear