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Monday, July 8th, 2024
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Evil'

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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader (1869-1948)
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Jerry Garcia, American Musician (1942-1995)
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
Mary Garden, -
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist (1810-1865)
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin, French Artist (1848-1903)
On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
John Gay, English Poet (1685-1732)
Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.
George III, English Royalty (1738-1820)
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
William Gibson, American Writer (1948-  )
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Andre Gide, French Novelist (1869-1951)
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American Writer (1860-1935)
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
William E. Gladstone, British Leader (1809-1898)
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
William Godwin, English Writer (1756-1836)
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.
William Godwin, English Writer (1756-1836)
He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.
William Godwin, English Writer (1756-1836)
Evil report carries further than any applause.
Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Philosopher (1601-1658)
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Philosopher (1601-1658)
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Philosopher (1601-1658)
Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.
Andrew Greeley, American Clergyman (1928-  )
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham Greene, British Playwright (1904-1991)
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, New Zealander Leader (1812-1898)
 
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