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Dialogue is a necessary evil.
Author:
Fred Zinnemann
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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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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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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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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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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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Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2.
Author:
Shane West
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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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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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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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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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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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Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
Author:
Georg Trakl
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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'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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An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
Author:
William Thackeray
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He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Author:
Robert 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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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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Evil counsel travels fast.
Author:
Sophocles
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No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
Author:
Sophocles
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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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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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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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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
Author:
Mary Shelley
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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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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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Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
Author:
David Sarnoff
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There is no evil in the world without a remedy.
Author:
Jacopo Sannazaro
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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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Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
Author:
Rudy Rucker
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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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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We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.
Author:
Pat Roberts
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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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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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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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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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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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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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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Author:
Plato
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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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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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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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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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Author:
Ovid
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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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Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Author:
Jim Morrison
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In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.
Author:
Sun Moon
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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 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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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.
Author:
John Mill
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
Author:
Sam Mendes
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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
Author:
Mencius
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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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You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.
Author:
Hattie McDaniel
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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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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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There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
Author:
Joe Mantegna
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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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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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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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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
Author:
John Machen
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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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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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Evil is only good perverted.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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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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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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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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Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
Author:
Charles Kingsley
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Author:
Stephen King
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Author:
Robert Kennedy
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
Author:
Hamid Karzai
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The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Author:
Immanuel Kant
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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
Author:
Carl Jung
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They that know no evil will suspect none.
Author:
Ben Jonson
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We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.
Author:
Thomas Jarvis
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
Author:
Robert Hughes
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I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.
Author:
Kelly Hu
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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
Author:
Hesiod
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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Author:
Hesiod
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He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
Author:
Hesiod
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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Author:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Author:
Barbara Harrison
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A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
Author:
Augustus Hare
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It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
Author:
Augustus Hare
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Author:
Thomas Hardy
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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Author:
Thomas Hardy
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When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
Author:
Knut Hamsun
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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.
Author:
William Godwin
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I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
Author:
William Gibson
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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
Author:
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Author:
Jerry Garcia
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
Author:
E. Forster
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There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.
Author:
Thomas Foran
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
Author:
Ralph Fiennes
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Evil societies always kill their consciences.
Author:
James Farmer, Jr.
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There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Author:
Epictetus
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Evil be to him who evil thinks.
Author:
Edward Edward II
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Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
Author:
Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
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I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.
Author:
Charles Doren
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Evil changes everybody!
Author:
Vincent D'Onofrio
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This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.
Author:
Howard Dean
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He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it.
Author:
Rosario Dawson
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Author:
Charles Darwin
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The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
Author:
Caleb Cushing
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I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Author:
Marie Curie
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The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Author:
Aleister Crowley
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I think that episode in the third season was great. I'm really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he's a rock star.
Author:
Bradley Cooper
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
Author:
Sidonie Colette
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To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
Author:
Claudius
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To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
Author:
Claudius
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In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
Author:
Agatha Christie
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We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
Author:
Maria Chapman
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This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
Author:
Edwin Chapin
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It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling.
Author:
Jung Chang
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In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.
Author:
James Caviezel
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Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.
Author:
John Carpenter
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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
Author:
George Carlin
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Author:
Albert Camus
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Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.
Author:
Giraldus Cambrensis
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
Author:
John Calvin
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A great book is like great evil.
Author:
Callimachus
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
Author:
Lord Byron
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
Author:
Laura Bush
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
Author:
William Burroughs
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No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
Author:
Martin Buren
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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Author:
Buddha
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
Author:
Pat Buckley
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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
Author:
Pearl Buck
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
Author:
F. Bradley
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Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
Author:
Louise Bogan
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Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
Author:
Michael Bloomberg
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
Author:
William Blake
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In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
Author:
William Bernbach
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All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
Author:
Jeremy Bentham
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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
Author:
Jean Baudrillard
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We are all born marked for evil.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.
Author:
Lester Bangs
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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The greatest evil is physical pain.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
Author:
W. Auden
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Author:
Aristotle
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Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'
Author:
Stuart Appleby
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You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.
Author:
Ben Affleck
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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Author:
Aesop
