Sophocles Quotes
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The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be!
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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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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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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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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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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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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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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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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 feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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I believe psychics are either kooks or they're tapping into a real power. But it is not, it's not a holy power, it's an evil power. No offense to James Van Praagh, because I think that he has a good heart and he really believes that what he is doing is good, and perhaps you are deceived…
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I know I'm in England because this morning, my stomach got up two hours before I did and had a cup of tea! I've had so much tea, I slosh when I walk! You have to drink tea - I've tasted the coffee!
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Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.
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I don't want a huge wedding. I don't want it to be some huge spectacle.
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Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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Evil counsel travels fast.
