Robert Southey Quotes About Evil

• No permitas nunca que un hombre imagine que puede perseguir un fin bueno por medios malos, sin pecar contra su propia alma. El efecto malo sobre sí mismo es seguro.

  Robert Southey

  Mal, Hombres, Mal

  Robert Southey (1831). "Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society", p.221

• War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.

  Robert Southey

  War, Army, Evil

• As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

  Robert Southey

  Evil, Necessary Evil

• Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.

  Robert Southey

  Fire, Evil, Being Thankful

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