Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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.
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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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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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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 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.
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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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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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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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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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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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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In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.
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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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No one has more trouble than the person who claims to have no trouble
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Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.
