Plato 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.
Orhan Pamuk
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
Saint Basil
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
J. Paul Getty
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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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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.
Maimonides
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
Victor Hugo
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
Malcolm X
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
Saint Basil
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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.
Gail O'Grady
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
Gary Sinise
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
Ted Dekker
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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.
Daniel Craig
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I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
Aaron Carter
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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.
Adam Hamilton
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.
James Branch Cabell
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He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.
Francesco Guicciardini
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Money the root of evil guess I'm the devil then. God bless my soul to rest.
Ace Hood
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back at you.
Byron Katie
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The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.
Alija Izetbegovic
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To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
Plato