Evils Quotes
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We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
Aristotle -
Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
Blaise Pascal
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Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.
Plato -
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
Sophocles -
Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.
Bion of Borysthenes -
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.
Elbridge Gerry -
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.
Blaise Pascal -
“Lying is the worst of all evils. Everything else that is diabolical comes from it.”
Wladyslaw Szpilman -
The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.
John Calvin -
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
Alexandre Dumas -
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal
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In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.
Napoleon III -
Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement.
Gerald Celente -
The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.
Plato -
The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
Miguel de Cervantes -
We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.
George Bernard Shaw
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The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.
Ella Leya -
To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we, by taking initiative, make you realize that helping us against the Turks is the lesser of the evils.
Eleftherios Venizelos