Euripides Quotes
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The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be!
Ted Dekker -
I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
Orhan Pamuk -
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
Oliver Ellsworth -
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt -
Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
Saint Basil -
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Samuel Butler
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman -
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
Maimonides -
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
Victor Hugo -
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
Garrett Fort -
No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
Saint Basil -
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. Bradley
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza -
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 -
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.
Rachelle Lefevre -
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust -
The gods behold all righteous actions.
Ovid
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If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Epicurus -
Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand,Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land?Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis Truth alone is strong,And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throngTroops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong.
James Russell Lowell -
Ill-gotten gains work evil.
Sophocles -
If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
Euripides