Quotations About / On: EVIL

  • 1.
    He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
    (Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.), Greek didactic poet. Works and Days, 265.)
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  • 2.
    There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
    (Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), U.S. president. Veto of the Second National Bank, July 10, 1832. Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, vol. II, ed. J.D. Richardson, Washington (1908).)
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  • 3.
    Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
    (Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946), U.S. essayist, aphorist. "Other People," Afterthoughts (1931).)
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  • 4.
    If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
    (Joseph De Maistre (1753-1821), French diplomat, philosopher. repr. In The Works of Joseph de Maistre, ed. Jack Lively (1965). The Count, in "First Dialogue," Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg (1821).)
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    No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
    (George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist, editor. Daniel Deronda, bk. 7, ch. 57 (1876).)
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  • 6.
    We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
    (Maria Weston Chapman (1806-1885), U.S. abolitionist. Speech, 1855, New York. "How Can I Help to Abolish Slavery.")
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  • 7.
    Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
    (Jerry Garcia (1942-1995), U.S. rock musician. Rolling Stone (New York, Nov. 30, 1989).)
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  • 8.
    All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
    (Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 98.)
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  • 9.
    A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
    (Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. Far from the Madding Crowd, ch. 18 (1874).)
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  • 10.
    Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
    (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Epistolae, 336 B....)
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