All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. Votes: 7
Blaise PascalI have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. Votes: 5
Blaise PascalFaith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil. Votes: 4
William WordsworthNo evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. Votes: 4
Lucius Annaeus SenecaEvil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. Votes: 2
Jean-Paul SartreEvil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. Votes: 2
W. H. AudenThe momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. Votes: 2
Francis BaconThe most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. Votes: 2
PythagorasThe dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. Votes: 2
John LockeThere surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. Votes: 2
Benjamin HaydonThe line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. Votes: 0
Alexandr SolzhenitsynHe's ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader) Votes: 0
Sherrilyn KenyonAn evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise. Votes: 0
Anne RiceTo do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good. Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTo justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. Votes: 0
Gore VidalHumanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love. Votes: 0
Wilm HosenfeldHumanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love. Votes: 0
Wladyslaw SzpilmanThe two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil. Votes: 0
Amit AbrahamHuman reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it. Votes: 0
Veronica RothNo evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. Votes: 0
Seneca the ElderThe choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. Votes: 0
George OrwellI think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good? Votes: 0
Robert McNamaraIt is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history. Votes: 0
Theodore Parker