(1613 quotes found)
“A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.”
Buddha
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison”
“Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.”
Mae West
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil”
Voltaire
“Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.”
Plato
“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”
Ayn Rand
“All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant”
Martin Luther King Jr.