Charles Dickens Quotes, Evil Quotes, Lazy Quotes

The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

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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

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Evil Quotes , Chosen Quotes

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Government Quotes , Evil Quotes

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Evil Quotes

So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , War Quotes , Evil Quotes

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Life Quotes , Evil Quotes

You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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

I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Believe Quotes , Evil Quotes

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Evil Quotes , Who We Are 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

to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Hate Quotes , Evil Quotes

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Mother Quotes , Evil Quotes

Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of necessity to protect oneself, and are not continued but are instead converted into the greatest possible benefits for the subjects. Badly used are those cruelties which. although being few at the outset, grow with the passing time instead of disappearing. Those who follow the first method can remedy their condition with God and with men; the others cannot possibly survive.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Insults You Quotes , Evil Quotes

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Evil Quotes , May Quotes

Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Evil Quotes , Hell Quotes

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Evil Quotes , Purpose Quotes

Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Long Quotes , Evil Quotes