3,115 Quotes About Evil

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

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  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

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  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;

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  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

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  • Author Thomas Jefferson
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    Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.

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  • Author Thomas Jefferson
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    We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.

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