Sigmund Freud Quotes
No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
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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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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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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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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 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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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.
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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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An evil life is a kind of death.
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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
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The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.
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The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertainingly, as possible.
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I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.
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I've been a paratrooper all my life.
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Sexy, to me, is the way you carry what you have. I have a big nose, but I rock it.
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No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
