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Evil

Evil, as a concept, is usually defined as profoundly immoral behavior, and it is related to acts that cause unnecessary pain and suffering to others.

47 QUOTES
"How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened."
— Thomas Jefferson
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
— Plato
"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."
— Marcus Aurelius
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
— Plato
"Make love your weapon to overcome any evil."
— Michael Jackson
"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."
— Gautama Buddha
"The misuse of language induces evil in the soul."
— Socrates
"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."
— Socrates
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
— Socrates
"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."
— Gautama Buddha
"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."
— Socrates
"The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks."
— C. S. Lewis
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