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Dialogue is a necessary evil.
Author:
Fred Zinnemann
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I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
Author:
Philip Zimbardo
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Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.
Author:
Philip Zimbardo
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The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
Author:
Philip Zimbardo
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What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
Author:
Philip Zimbardo
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Author:
Xun Zi
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
Author:
Xun Zi
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No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
Author:
Citium Zeno
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
Author:
Frances Wright
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
Author:
Fred Woodworth
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Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
Author:
James Woods
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You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.
Author:
Gene Wolfe
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Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.
Author:
David Wilmot
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At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
Author:
Simon Wiesenthal
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
Author:
George Whitefield
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The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
Author:
George Whitefield
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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
Author:
Benjamin Whichcote
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
Author:
Richard Whately
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Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2.
Author:
Shane West
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The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.
Author:
Len Wein
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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Author:
Simone Weil
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In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.
Author:
Daniel Waters
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The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
Author:
George Washington
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But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?
Author:
Jim Wallis
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I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
Author:
Margaret Walker
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Author:
Voltaire
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If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Author:
Swami Vivekananda
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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
Author:
Alfred Vigny
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Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
Author:
William Vickrey
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
Author:
Evelyn Underhill
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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Author:
Mark Twain
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
Author:
Lars Trier
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The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
Author:
Charles Trevelyan
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Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
Author:
Georg Trakl
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I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
Author:
Arnold Toynbee
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Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Author:
Linus Torvalds
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.
Author:
Bob Thaves
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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
Author:
William Thackeray
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
Author:
Tertullian
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The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?
Author:
William Temple
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He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
Author:
Ali Talib
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Author:
Tacitus
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I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.
Author:
Max Sydow
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.
Author:
Janet Suzman
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How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
Author:
Lytton Strachey
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It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
Author:
Bram Stoker
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
Author:
Wilhelm Steinitz
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I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
Author:
Wilhelm Steinitz
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
Author:
Ralph Steadman
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We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.
Author:
Claus Stauffenberg
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I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.
Author:
John Speke
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Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
Author:
Robert Southey
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Evil gains work their punishment.
Author:
Sophocles
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Evil counsel travels fast.
Author:
Sophocles
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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
Author:
Sophocles
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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
Author:
Sophocles
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There is no greater evil than anarchy.
Author:
Sophocles
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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Author:
Sophocles
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No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
Author:
Sophocles
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
Author:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.
Author:
Steven Soderbergh
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Author:
Socrates
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Author:
Socrates
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
Author:
Logan Smith
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Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
Author:
George Smith
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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
Author:
George Smith
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When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Author:
Lewis Smedes
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Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
Author:
Swami Sivananda
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It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.
Author:
Charles Simeon
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
Author:
Mary Shelley
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
Author:
George Shaw
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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
Author:
Natan Sharansky
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.
Author:
Allyson Schwartz
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The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.
Author:
Klaus Schulze
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While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
Author:
Dorothy Sayers
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I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.
Author:
Adam Savage
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I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
Author:
Siegfried Sassoon
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Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
Author:
David Sarnoff
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
Author:
George Santayana
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
Author:
George Santayana
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Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
Author:
Jacopo Sannazaro
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There is no evil in the world without a remedy.
Author:
Jacopo Sannazaro
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A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.
Author:
Jimmy Sangster
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Author:
Sallust
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We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.
Author:
Samuel Rutherford
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Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.
Author:
Samuel Rutherford
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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
Author:
John Ruskin
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The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
Author:
Dean Rusk
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Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
Author:
Rudy Rucker
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Author:
Jean Rousseau
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I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
Author:
Roberto Rossellini
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Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.
Author:
Joel Rosenberg
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
Author:
Mitt Romney
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
Author:
Maximilien Robespierre
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The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
Author:
Frederick Robertson
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We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.
Author:
Pat Roberts
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American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
Author:
Bob Riley
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Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
Author:
Anne Rice
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It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Author:
Mary Renault
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The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
Author:
John Rawls
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Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Author:
Ayn Rand
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I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
Author:
Kathleen Raine
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I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
Author:
Akbar Rafsanjani
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Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.
Author:
Trevor Rabin
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
Author:
Carroll Quigley
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There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
Author:
Pythagoras
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No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly.
Author:
Protagoras
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Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.
Author:
Dennis Prager
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If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
Author:
Dennis Prager
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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
Author:
Terry Prachett
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
Author:
Antonio Porchia
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The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
Author:
Plutarch
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Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
Author:
Christopher Plummer
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The evil that we know is best.
Author:
Titus Plautus
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Keep what you have; the known evil is best.
Author:
Titus Plautus
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
Author:
Titus Plautus
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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Author:
Plato
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Author:
Plato
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Author:
Plato
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Author:
Plato
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Author:
Plato
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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Author:
Plato
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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Author:
Peace Pilgrim
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The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
Author:
Emo Philips
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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Author:
Phaedrus
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That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.
Author:
William Petty
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
Author:
Petrarch
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Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
Author:
John Petit-Senn
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There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
Author:
Ellis Peters
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I do like to explore evil characters in my books.
Author:
Thomas Perry
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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
Author:
William Penn
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
Author:
M. Peck
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A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
Author:
James Payn
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Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Author:
Jean Paul
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All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
Author:
Gilbert Parker
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
Author:
Orhan Pamuk
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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
Author:
Joy Page
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Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.
Author:
Robert Owen
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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Author:
Ovid
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George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.
Author:
Patton Oswalt
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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
Author:
George Orwell
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War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
Author:
George Orwell
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The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
Author:
John Orr
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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
Author:
Origen
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Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
Author:
David Ogilvy
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The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
Author:
Ted Nugent
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
Author:
Ted Nugent
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That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
Author:
Lyn Nofziger
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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.
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John Newton
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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John Newman
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Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
Author:
Richard Neuhaus
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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Author:
Gerard Nerval
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It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
Author:
Gerard Nerval
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I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.
Author:
Alva Myrdal
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Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.
Author:
Mike Myers
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Oh, you know, driving around, coming to a stop sign and an entire family, from 8 to 80, will be looking at me with that Dr. Evil look - pinkie on the mouth.
Author:
Mike Myers
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Author:
Iris Murdoch
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There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.
Author:
Multatuli
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History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
Author:
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
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Jim Morrison
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It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.
Author:
Simon Morris
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Author:
Hannah More
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In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.
Author:
Sun Moon
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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Maria Montessori
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Author:
Maria Montessori
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The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
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James Monroe
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Ludwig Mises
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The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
Author:
Henry Miller
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Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
Author:
Henry Miller
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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
Author:
Henry Miller
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
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John Mill
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Author:
John Mill
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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
Author:
John Mill
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
Author:
Sam Mendes
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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H. Mencken
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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Mencius
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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Mencius
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The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
Author:
Menander
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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
Author:
Menander
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Author:
Margaret Mead
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Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.
Author:
George Mead
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I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.
Author:
Jim McKay
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But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
Author:
Patrick McGoohan
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You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.
Author:
Hattie McDaniel
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I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.
Author:
Bruce McCulloch
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Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.
Author:
Andrew McCarthy
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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
Author:
Andre Maurois
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
Author:
W. Maugham
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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
Author:
Christy Mathewson
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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Author:
Jose Marti
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There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
Author:
Joe Mantegna
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Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
Author:
Horace Mann
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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
Author:
Horace Mann
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Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
Author:
Horace Mann
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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Author:
Thomas Malthus
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You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.
Author:
Nicolas Malebranche
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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
Author:
Joseph Maistre
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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
Author:
Joseph Maistre
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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Maimonides
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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.
Author:
Kyle MacLachlan
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
Author:
John Machen
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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Author:
Douglas MacArthur
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There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.
Author:
Robert Lynd
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Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.
Author:
Frank Luntz
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But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.
Author:
Brian Lumley
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Author:
Lucretius
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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
Author:
James Lowell
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Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
Author:
Konrad Lorenz
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We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
Author:
Konrad Lorenz
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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Evil is only good perverted.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
Author:
John Locke
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My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Author:
Mary Lincoln
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Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
Author:
Judith Light
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
Author:
Karl Liebknecht
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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Author:
Max Lerner
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When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
Author:
Max Lerner
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Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
Author:
Giacomo Leopardi
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Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
Author:
Giacomo Leopardi
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Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.
Author:
Jay Leno
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Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
Author:
Vladimir Lenin
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
Author:
Barbara Lee
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Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
Author:
T. Lawrence
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
Author:
David Lawrence
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Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
Author:
Johann Lavater
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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
Author:
Johann Lavater
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It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
Author:
Isidore Lautreamont
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In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.
Author:
Kenneth Latourette
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That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.
Author:
Kenneth Latourette
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Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
Author:
Walter Lang
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Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.
Author:
Richard Land
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A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.
Author:
Joseph Lancaster
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Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us.
Author:
William Kunstler
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
Author:
Hans Kung
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What I fear is being in the presence of evil and doing nothing. I fear that more than death.
Author:
Otilia Koster
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
Author:
Lajos Kossuth
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We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
Author:
Charles Kingsley
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
