Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Orhan Pamuk
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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.
Oliver Ellsworth
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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.
Hannah Arendt
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
Saint Basil
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Samuel Butler
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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.
Sam Raimi
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If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great 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.
Charles Trevelyan
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If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
C. S. Lewis
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The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.
Alberto Manguel
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The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.
Vladimir Lenin
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I'm just worried that there's enough beer on the bus. That's the top priority at all times.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
Friedrich Nietzsche