Evils Quotes
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“The general object was to produce a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origins, every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy.”
Edmund Randolph
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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
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We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
Aristotle
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“Lying is the worst of all evils. Everything else that is diabolical comes from it.”
Wladyslaw Szpilman
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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
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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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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
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
Sophocles
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One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.
Bion of Borysthenes
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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
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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
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Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement.
Gerald Celente
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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.
George Bernard Shaw
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
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In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.
Napoleon III
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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
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Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
John Ruskin
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Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.
Ariana Franklin
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The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.
Ella Leya
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I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.
Stonewall Jackson
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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