Plato Quotes
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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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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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
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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.
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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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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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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.
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.
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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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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim.
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(When thinking about the Ruth character) I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way.
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It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it's filet mignon.
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We got HBO when I was 7. My parents would be in bed, 'Children of the Corn' would be on at midnight, and I'd watch it on mute.
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Ignorance: the root of all evil.
