Plato Quotes, Evil Quotes

There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

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Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Names Quotes , Evil Quotes

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Evil Quotes , Saws Quotes

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Evil Quotes , Nine Quotes

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Evil Quotes , Earth Quotes

I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Evil Quotes , Feelings Quotes

A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Evil Quotes , Littles Quotes

Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Evil Quotes , Special Quotes

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Evil Quotes , Hatred Quotes

When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Evil Quotes

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Eye Quotes , Evil Quotes

My definition of evil is unfriendliness.

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Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Evil Quotes

He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Evil Quotes

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Believe Quotes , Evil Quotes

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , People Quotes , Evil Quotes

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Power Quotes , Evil Quotes

I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Lying Quotes , Evil Quotes

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes