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“No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.”

Men Evil Speak Marriage Greater Wise Wife Judging Endure Greater Good

Book:The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues

Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues

“Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.”

Men Evil House Money Cities

Author:Sophocles

“We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.”

Should Wells States Running Spirit Courses Evil Speak Goal Rich Lows Prosperity Evil Spirits

Book:The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre

Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre

“The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.”

Soul Evil Nurse Wickedness

Author:Sophocles

“Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.”

Knows Men Made Stills Soul Home Evil Pay Cities Teach Honest He Man Grew Late Lows Shame Lays Train Folks Currents Deeds Made It Pay The Price Practise Warp Villainy

Book:Antigone

Source: Antigone

“Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.”

Thinking Men World Made Evil Enjoyed Multitudes

Book:The Stones of Venice: The foundations

Source: The Stones of Venice: The foundations

“The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.”

World Mind Evil Sooner Or Later Evil Thoughts

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Even an evil man can have principleshe can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.”

Men Evil Easy Principles Being True Evil Man

Book:Conversations with Norman Mailer

Source: Conversations with Norman Mailer

“Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.”

Heart Stills Evil Accepting Lord Wicked Thanksgiving Baffled Erring

Author:William Dean Howells

“Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.”

Humans Evil Understanding Views Moral Novel Judging Habit Morality Judgment Stupidity Absence Readiness Immorality Pernicious Moral Judgment

Author:Milan Kundera

“Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.”

May Ends Seems America Evil Kingdoms Aliens Features Knavery

Author:George III

“There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.”

Long Has Beens Evil House Fear Difficult Black White Taken Doubt Taught Neighbor Granted Witch Provoking Yards Validity Taken For Granted Unchanging Stampede

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.”

Seems Evil Inevitable Boredom Emptiness Expenses Psychics Accustomed Idleness

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.”

People Men War Country States Might Evil United United States Fate Ought Direct Train Storm Civil War Wicked Ambitious Reign Doom Gallows Ambitious Man

Author:Andrew Jackson

“What we are accustomed to decry as great social evils, will, for the most part, be found to be only the out-growth of our own perverted life; and though we may endeavor to cut them down and extirpate them by means of law, they will only spring up again with fresh luxuriance in some other form, unless the conditions of human life and character are radically improved.”

Humans May Mean Character Form Law Evil Found Social Growth Cutting Conditions Spring Down And Human Life Endeavor Accustomed Social Evils

Book:Self-help

Source: Self-help

“Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.”

Children Done Care Culture Evil Women Commit Ignorant Remedy Worthless

Book:Character

Source: Character

“The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.”

Evil Moral Ignorance Slave Vices Selfishness Despots

Book:Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance

Source: Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance

“The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good.”

Evil Tests Ultimate

Author:Frank Herbert

“Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.”

Might Evil Asks Answers Produce Devil Infinity

Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state.”

Men States Feelings Eye Suffering Evil Justice Trouble Conditions Creation Conscience Sight Affair Wicked Remedy Transitory Resigned

Book:Justice

Source: Justice

“I am a thing not new, I am as old As human nature. I am that which lurks, Ready to spring whenever a bar is loosed; The ancient trait which fights incessantly Against restraint, balks at the upward climb; The weight forever seeking to obey The law of downward pull; and I am more: The bitter fruit am I of planted seed; The resultant, the inevitable end Of evil forces and the powers of wrong.”

Humans Ends Law Fighting Evil Force Forever Human Nature Ready Spring Weight Fruit Ancient Seeking Seeds Bars Bitter Inevitable Climbs Traits Restraint Incessantly

Author:James Weldon Johnson

“Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.”

Desire Evil Shame Jail

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.”

Men Two Choices Evil Two Evils

Author:Austin O'Malley

“The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.”

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“It's about panic. It's about fear. It's about instilling the American populace with terror, dread, and apprehension about the future. It's all about making you think that your way of life is "destroying the world." America is the root of all evil in the world, according to the environmentalist wackos. You, the citizens of the United States, are ruining everything.”

Thinking World Way States America Life Is Evil United United States Citizens Roots Terror Destroying Dread Panic Apprehension Environmentalist Ruining Everything

Book:See, I Told You So

Source: See, I Told You So

“We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world - a monster country, one might say, along with others such as China, India, the recent Soviet Union, and Brazil. And there is a real question as to whether "bigness" in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.”

“Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.”

Should Wells Persons Evil House Cities Late Flames Too Late Chairs Carrier

Book:THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

Source: THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

“A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.”

Source: Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide

“Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil," then God enters in me.”

World Soul Evil Father Religious Practice Creation My Soul Good And Evil Touched Confrontation Creation Of The World

Author:Marcel Marceau

“I'm not actually a psychopath. I don't look evil. People don't normally want to put me in the same kind of things afterward, so I'm looking forward to people taking a few risks and hopefully seeing me as the character actor that I think I am.”

People Thinking Want Looks Kind Character Evil Actors Seeing Risk Hopefully Looking Forward Psychopath Evil People Character Actors

Author:David Oakes

“If you're a Republican and rich, that's evil. But if you're a Democrat and rich, that's great.”

Ifs Evil Rich Republican Democrat

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing believable characters. They don't have to be likable but they have to be loved, at least by the author.”

People Thinking Want Writing Important Character Evil Believable

Author:Mark Russell

“You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.”

Trying Character Feelings Evil Morality Justification Lovable

Author:Mark Russell

“And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces.”

People Ifs World Believe Evil Force I Believe Consciousness Millions Balance Good And Evil Collectives Phenomenon Embodiment

Author:Deepak Chopra

“German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein as evil a person as a lot of other people have.”

People World May Persons Stills War Remember Evil War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Saddam Hussein Pacifist

Author:George W. Bush

“I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.”

Ifs Thinking Children Suffering Evil Grows Poor Growing Up Conditions Shadow Abuse Tendencies Educated Collectives Manifest Humiliated Diabolical Inhumane

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped.”

Author:Rick Warren

“I do sort of believe that in life all manifestations of evil usually come from an emotional place. They come from some kind of emotional heartbreak or some psychological damage. I'm not a psychologist and that's probably for the best but I am interested in it.”

Believe Kind Evil Emotional Psychological Manifestation Damage Psychologist

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I don't think I've ever been face to face with pure evil, so I don't think I've ever seen it with my own eyes. But I do understand human frailty and I do understand the capacity of people to be intermittently noble and virtuous and fallible.”

People Thinking Humans Eye Faces Evil My Own Pure Capacity Noble Virtuous Face To Face Frailty Human Frailties Pure Evil

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“It [RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE] has definitely been the biggest learning curve for me. As an actor, whenever I start on a movie, different things that I perform in ask for different skill sets. And this one is definitely the technological side of it. You have to hit your mark. You can't weave back and forth because your nose is jutting at you in 3-D. It's really been learning how to do that and also it's exciting to be on the forefront of this technology.”

Different Evil Actors Asks Sides Technology Skills Exciting Mark Noses Different Things Afterlife Technological Curves Back And Forth Residents Learning Curve Resident Evil

Author:Ali Larter

“Specialization is the great evil of civilization.”

Evil Civilization Specialization

Author:Wendell Berry

“I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass, but never or rarely surprised or upset when it does.”

World Doe Evil Worst Optimism Upset Wicked Wicked World

Author:Semir Zeki

“The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.”

Order Evil Amount Goodness Chaos Construction Invoke

Book:Gabo : constructions, sculpture, paintings, drawings, engravings : with introductory essays

Source: Gabo : constructions, sculpture, paintings, drawings, engravings : with introductory essays

“There are Christians who think and speak altogether too much about the power of Satan. They think of their adversary, they pray about him, they talk about him, and he looms up greater and greater in their imagination. It is true that Satan is a powerful being; but, thank God, we have a mighty Saviour, who cast out the evil one from heaven. Satan is pleased when we magnify his power. Why not talk of Jesus? Why not magnify His power and His love?”

Thinking Christian Evil Jesus Speak Heaven Imagination Powerful Greater Too Much Praying Casts Satan Why Not Thank God His Love Adversaries Saviour

Book:The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 3. The Desire of Ages—Illustrated

Source: The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 3. The Desire of Ages—Illustrated

“The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.”

Men Evil He Man Battle Female Method Western Good And Evil

Author:Warren Farrell

“My divorce has changed my life. I don’t cry anymore. My bad dreams are starting to go away. I feel stronger, as if all these ordeals have toughened me. When I go out in the street, sometimes women in the neighborhood call to me, congratulating me and shouting ‘Mabrouk!’ – a word once tainted by evil memories, but which I know like to hear again. And shouted by women I don’t even know! I blush, but deep down I’m so proud.”

Source: I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

“Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.”

People Ifs Humans Ideas Enough Law Turns Evil Clear Modern Human Nature Opposites Ultimate Complicated Uncertainty Cooperation

Book:The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

Source: The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

“Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic.”

Way Humans Character Bigs Evil Human Beings Existence Magic Casts Good And Evil Fascinating Evil Characters

Book:The Girl on the Cliff: A Novel

Source: The Girl on the Cliff: A Novel

“I've learned to distinguish between the greatness of God and the inexcusable evil that has been done by those professing his name. And so I do not deduce [as Christopher Hitchens does] that God is not great, and that religion poisons everything. After all, if I failed to distinguish between the genius of Einstein and the abuse of his science to create weapons of mass destruction, I might be tempted to say science is not great, and technology poisons everything.”

“The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason to truth and progress, was not at all in their intentions, in their purpose, in their personal character, but in their opinions.”