Thomas Paine Quotes about Evil

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Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

Thomas Paine

4th Of July, Government, Evil

Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.15, Penguin

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

Thomas Paine

Men, Evil, Sacred

Thomas Paine, Mark Philp (1998). “Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings”, p.400, Oxford Paperbacks

Government is a necessary evil

Thomas Paine

Government, Evil, Necessary Evil

Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

Blessing, Government, Evil

Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.15, Penguin

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

Thomas Paine

Blessing, Evil, Where You Live

Thomas Paine (1830). “Brief sketch of the life of Thomas Paine. Common sense. Epistle to Quakers. The crisis. Public good. Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper money. Miscellaneous”, p.80

Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.

Thomas Paine

Loss, Evil, Inheritance

Thomas Paine (2013). “Agrarian Justice”, p.9, Simon and Schuster