Quotations About / On: EVIL

  • 41.
    Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
    (Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 532, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Mixed Opinions and Maxims, aphorism 402, "The Judge," (1879).)
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  • 42.
    He may have had for evil or for good
    No argument; he may have had no care
    For what without himself went anywhere
    (Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. The Man against the Sky (l. 77-79). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 43.
    The mediation by the serpent was necessary: Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
    (Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Prague German Jewish author, novelist. The Third Notebook, December 7, 1917. The Blue Octavo Notebooks, ed. Max Brod, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. Exact Change, Cambridge, MA (1991). Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York, Schocken Books (1954).)
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  • 44.
    Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
    (Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by Lorenzo O'Rourke. "Thoughts," Postscriptum de ma vie, in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography, Funk and Wagnalls (1907).)
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  • 45.
    Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.
    (Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. (Written 1943-1944). Wars I Have Seen, Random House (1945).)
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  • 46.
    In vain produced, all rays return;
    Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Uriel," Poems (1847).)
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  • 47.
    Life is grown sweeter and lonelier,
    And death is no evil.
    (Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. Night (l. 64-65). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 48.
    The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
    (George Santayana (1863-1952), U.S. philosopher, essayist. Originally published 1920. Character and Opinion in the United States, ch. 4, Doubleday Anchor (1956).)
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  • 49.
    Evil is maybe lying to God.
    Or better, lying to love.
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Is It True?")
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  • 50.
    I am stricken
    as never before,
    by the thought
    of ineptitude, sloth, evil
    that prosper,
    while such as he fall.
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "R.A.F.....")
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