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Evil events from evil causes spring.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Quote by Aristophanes about bad, events, spring

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Quote by Edward II

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less...

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Quote by Agatha Christie about bad, human imperfections

Evil is whatever distracts.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Quote by Franz Kafka

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about bad, infinite

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, ...

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Quote by John Henry Newton about bad, corruption, excess

Evil is just a point of view.

Evil is just a point of view.

Quote by Anne Rice about bad

In our existence, absolutely anything that would refer to its self, as evil to evil and good to good would lead to the annulment of the actual reference, so it is absolutely necessary for a final referent to exist, that is in no way the same as...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about origin, good, good luck, end, existence, self-control

True religion must fight against Evil in man and be aside him, being the only way to avoid existing Evil of the human self in another type of Evil that will be closer to Good or could even surpass it in Goodness. It will consequently determine...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about religion, self-control, human imperfections, perfection, being, fight, good, good luck, man

Man through his essence is a dual being of Good and Evil that are a part of man’s self that he can never chase away from him, because if he tries to chase away Evil to keep only Good, Man becomes an alien to himself, transforming the Good he leans...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about man, self-control, perfection, being, normality, good, good luck, determination, morality, beginning

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Quote by Lord Acton about moral, consequences, morality, wealth, society, man, rightness

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about doubt, god, things, good, good luck

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to...

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about suffering, god, good, good luck

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good...

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about good, good luck, life

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about pleasure, good, good luck

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty...

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about poverty

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to...

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil along with the evil of racism with a camera.

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography, poverty, fight

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about bad

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means, nor must we ever...

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means, nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

Quote by William Penn about saints, good, good luck, end

There is no Good without Evil as there cannot be Evil without Good. By wanting Good, Man’s Sacred Self looks towards the future, towards Destiny and this is why Man wants Good to be granted to the future, to the yet unknown Destiny that once...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about good, good luck, destiny, future, past, self-control, knowledge, man

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