#evil

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#combine #dictionary #evil #good #good and evil

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#appearance #avoiding #deprived #enjoyments #evil

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#believe #devil #haunts #heaviest #imagination

I'm a little devil. ↗

— Roger Moore

#i #little

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#created #enough #evil #fact #fundamental

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#bitter #evil #i #lies #prophesy

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. ↗

— Herodotus

#good #ignorance #knowledge #only

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. ↗

— Herodotus

#being #better #boldness #cowardly #evils

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. ↗

— Herodotus

#concerted #effort #evil #greater #greater evil

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. ↗

— Hesiod

#city #entire #evil #man #often