Benjamin Haydon Quotes about Evil

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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Evil, Human Nature, Propensity

Benjamin Robert Haydon (1853). “Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter”, p.472

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

Benjamin Haydon

Government, Two, Evil

Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.259

No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.

Benjamin Haydon

Successful, Men, Evil

Benjamin Haydon Quotes about Evil

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