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I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion — H.G.Wells

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another. — Socrates

The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe. — Septima Poinsette Clark

Satan's greatest power was not that he could inflict evil. His greatest power was to make the sons of God forget who they were. — Deepak Chopra

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one. — Miguel De Cervantes

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

This unresting anxiety is the greatest evil which can happen to the soul, sin only excepted. — Francis De Sales

Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom. — St. Jerome

To do injustice is the greatest of all evils. — Plato

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked. — Fanny Burney

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry. — Saint Francis De Sales

The smallest evil if neglected, will reach the greatest proportions. — Pliny The Younger

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. — Luc De Clapiers

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health. — Stefan Molyneux

The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons — Hannah Arendt

The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself. — Patrick McGoohan

Sometimes the greatest evil comes in the most beautiful of packages. — Marian Erway

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people — Henry Adams

The greatest weapon we have against evil is doing good in Jesus' name. — Kay Warren

It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. — Gottfried Leibniz

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction. — Thomas Brooks

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious. — Luc De Clapiers

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil. — James Monroe

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious. — Blaise Pascal

Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?"
"Is that including, or not including you? — Anthony Horowitz

Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love. — Wladyslaw Szpilman

Of all the evil man can do, the greatest is doing nothing. — Jury Nel

The greatest of all evils is a weak government — Benjamin Disraeli

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Maybe our greatest enemy isn't the evil around us, but the evil inside us. — Ricky Maye

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. — George Bernard Shaw

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

The greatest lie of the greatest evil is that it doesn't exist. — G. Norman Lippert

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil. — Plato

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. — Plato

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character. — Herman Melville

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear. — John Armstrong

Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. — Wallace Stegner

The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power. — Albert Einstein

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil. — Machado De Assis

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal. — Elisabeth Elliot

Is death the greatest evil that can happen to anyone? — Agatha Christie

Surprise is the tool of the Devil and it is the greatest power of the evil forces! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine

To do wrong is the greatest of evils. — Plato

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to. — Sophocles

The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have. — Andrew Vachss

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good. — John Fowles

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good. — Leo Tolstoy

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. — Plato

Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet. — Will Smith

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood,
Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. — Alexander Pope

Love is the greatest force on earth to resist, limit and ultimately halt evil's deadly progression. — James Robison

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil. — William Penn

Our greatest evil flows from ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His Wrath stops us from evil. — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

For the greater good":
the phrase that always precedes
the greatest evil. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good. — Jeremy Taylor

Agatha wondered whether in this room of heroes young and old, Hester was the greatest hero of all. — Soman Chainani

Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him. — David Wong

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he was evil. — Edmund Carver

This is the greatest evil that grows out of a wrong act. Somebody always remembers it ... in an evil way. — James A. Michener

Hope is the greatest gift and the greatest evil...Hope saved us and hope might yet kill us. — Nalini Singh

Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years. — Lord Alfred Douglas

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil. — Samuel Johnson

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. — Euripides

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell

War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war. — Dean Hughes

Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing. — Tom Dreesen

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm. — Robert Baer

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. — William Hazlitt

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss. — Seneca The Younger

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul. — Arthur Bryant

Lack of money is the root of of all evil. — George Bernard Shaw