William Godwin 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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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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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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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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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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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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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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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 played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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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.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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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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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.
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The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
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I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.
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It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.
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I had no confidence as a child; I still really don't. Acting is the only thing I've ever felt comfortable doing.
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The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because they championed 'democracy' or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling constitutional republicanism.
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Power is not happiness.
