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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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
Hans Kung
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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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It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.
Matt Taibbi
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No one has more trouble than the person who claims to have no trouble
Taiichi Ohno
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To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
Plato