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I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world. -- Chris Martin
If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil? -- Paul Bloom
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. -- John Stuart Mill
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. -- Charles Simmons
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. -- Samuel Johnson
I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl! -- Lara Stone
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil. -- Swami Sivananda
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling. -- William Cobbett
This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country. -- George Grey
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case. -- John Rawls
As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy. -- George R. R. Martin
Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil. -- Jon Meacham
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. -- Thomas Merton
A great book is like great evil. -- Callimachus
Selfishness is the root of great evil. -- Richard G. Scott
Specialization is the great evil of civilization. -- Wendell Berry
Great for good, or great for evil. -- Robert Burns
A great large book is a great evil. -- Joseph Addison
No evil is great if it is the last. -- Cornelius Nepos
I have wrought great use out of evil tools. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
That evil can never be great which is the last. -- Cornelius Nepos
There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair. -- Evelyn Waugh
An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community. -- Aeschines
A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good. -- Voltaire
The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time. -- Ellen Key
This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war. -- Andrew Jackson
Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. -- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. -- Euripides
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality. -- Irwin Edman
When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them. -- John Flavel
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men. -- Demosthenes
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. -- Martin Luther
If you're a Republican and rich, that's evil. But if you're a Democrat and rich, that's great. -- Greg Gutfeld
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them. -- Michel de Montaigne
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. -- Ernest Hemingway
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil. -- Amit Abraham
[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed. -- Samuel Johnson
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. -- Luc de Clapiers
Satan is attacking the great institutions of America. This is a spiritual war. I believe in good and evil. -- Rick Santorum
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. -- Samuel Johnson
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. -- Plato
So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good. -- John Calvin
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil -- Samuel Johnson
At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions. -- Eva Green
Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions. -- William of Tyre
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong -- Alfred Russel Wallace
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
The great lesson of our time is that evil still exists, and when evil is on the march, it must be confronted. -- Stephen J. Solarz
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. -- Calvin Coolidge
The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God. -- Charles Spurgeon
A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. -- Fulton J. Sheen
The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth? -- Anne Rice
The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds. -- Garrett Fort
Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story? -- Erin Morgenstern
There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
I get to play with great friends and a great crew, every day, blowing stuff up and saying evil lines. You can't complain about that. -- Casper Crump
The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people. -- Terry Pratchett
In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible... -- Stephen Jay Gould
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it. -- Mencius
Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil, the greater the reaction. -- Theodore Dreiser
An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland. -- Adolf Hitler
Politics remained archaically unchanged in 1999. America was economically strong but morally complacent. It was a year of evil in many ways - another great year for cartooning. -- Michael Ramirez
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility. -- Matthew Henry
How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit? -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life. -- Amelia Barr
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Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter. -- Corrie Ten Boom
The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed. -- Tacitus
There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us. -- Howard W. Hunter
This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler. [Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est, Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.] -- Plautus
The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics. -- James Stewart
Two great prayers;Yahweh, grant me grace for my daily activities.Yahweh, protect me from all evil, so that my life will be free of pain in Jesus name. Amen! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. -- Vasily Grossman
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil. -- A. Powell Davies
It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good. -- Steven Brust
For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation's great cause "¦ There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust. -- Richard Perle
We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil. -- Saint Basil
I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil. -- Howard Zinn

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