Philip James Bailey Quotes
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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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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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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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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 don't think fashion is evil.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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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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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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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
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In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.
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An evil life is a kind of death.
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I challenge anyone to tell me there isn't evil in this world.
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The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
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Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
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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.
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As evil waxes, the very men who stand for good will in their fear use ever worse means o’ fighting, and thereby give evil a free beachhead.
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Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.
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It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.
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I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
