top of page

"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."

Benjamin Whichcote, British Philosopher

26

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."

Exlpore more Evil quotes

"We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us."

Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician

Evil, Prohibition, Will

"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."

Konrad Lorenz, Austrian Scientist

"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Evil, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Evil, Resolution

"It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

Evil, Gain, Loss, Proof

"Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive."

Giraldus Cambrensis, Welsh Clergyman

Evil, Mind, Vices

"If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Evil, God, Heaven, Creation

"When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Evil, Devil, Virtue, Appearance

"Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?"

Alfred de Vigny, French Poet

Evil, Example, Facts, Memory

"Keep what you have; the known evil is best."

Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman Poet

Explore more quotes by Benjamin Whichcote

"Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New."

"Conscience without judgment is superstition."

"The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth."

"Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome."

"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."

bottom of page