#evil

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#been #evils #extensively #faith #had

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#believed #brought #even #had #however

When the devil grows old he turns hermit. ↗

— Ludovico Ariosto

#grows #hermit #old #turns

Evil events from evil causes spring. ↗

— Aristophanes

#events #evil #spring

He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn't matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed and reinvented eternally across the world. I can't speak to that. What I do know? This is your story. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#history #myth #religion #beauty

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bring #evil #exist #god #good

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. ↗

— Roberto Rossellini

#evil #exists #form #i #i am

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. ↗

— McGeorge Bundy

#evil #evils #lesser #occasionally #two

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. ↗

— Lord Byron

#evil #generally #must #mystery #suspected

Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly. ↗

— James Chanos

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