Plato Quotes, Law Quotes, Evil Quotes

The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

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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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If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

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There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

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There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

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Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

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I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.

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

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

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It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

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Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

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All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

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Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

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