Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.
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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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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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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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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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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.
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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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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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We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
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Is there anything that is forbidden to anybody who says they have God on their side? Who says they have God with them? Is there any evil that they forbid themselves to do? 10
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I love men. But evil men? I will not tolerate that. You don't deserve to be in my presence. If you're going to rule this world, I am not going to contribute anymore until you change it.
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If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from heaven; and the triumph of truth over error, of good over evil, of happiness over misery, is forever secured.
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The satisfaction you feel from your own success pales in comparison to the despair you feel from this person's personal triumphs, even if those triumphs are completely unrelated to your life.
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
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My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.
