Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
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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.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
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I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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Any number of lies will serve a rich and evil man.
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My favorite was the one about 'Snow White'. Those funky little guys with the beards. The poisonous apple. And that cool mirror the evil stepmother used to talk to. You know, she'd ask it all these questions: Who's the nicest? Who's the sweetest... Who's the fairest of them all? And for a while, everything was hunky-dory.
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We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.
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I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day. For thousands of years people got along with something called style and maybe, in another thousand, we'll go back to it.
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Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
