#evil

There is no greater evil than anarchy. ↗

— Sophocles

#evil #greater #greater evil #than

To live without evil belongs only to the gods. ↗

— Sophocles

#evil #gods #live #only #without

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain? ↗

— Sophocles

#dying #evils #gain #how #i

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. ↗

— Robert Southey

#certain #effect #end #evil #good

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#degrees #devil #his #play #sword

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation. ↗

— John H. Speke

#africa #civilisation #describe #european #evil

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#conception #evil #form #free #good

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#enough #evil #give #know #love

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#gentlemanly #sometimes #thing #very

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today! ↗

— Billy Sunday

#backsliding #cast #causes #church #conversion