“Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.”
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 106
German philosopher 1770–1831Related quotes
“Fear of evil is greater than the evil itself.”
Sono maggiori li spaventi ch'e mali.
Act III, scene xi
The Mandrake (1524)
“To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.”
Source: The Invention of Wings
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.”
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter V : Anatomy Of The Corporate State, p. 125
Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 4, lines 18-28 The Words of Jesus to the Giant Albion
“Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.”
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)
“Language is an evil thing, a very evil thing. And a force to be reckoned with.”
As quoted in The Guardian (19 March 2005)
“Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.”
Volume iii, p. 332
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)