Evil Quotes
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I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.
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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
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Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.
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Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.
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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
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Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.
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God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.
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It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
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A tongue is very like a gun, which is why they nearly rhyme. Both can be fired to devastating effect, for good or evil, and both can explode in your hands, wounding your comrades instead of your enemies.
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Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
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They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from malice, it is possible to make a quite probable judgment that they would never come away from evil.
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I definitely think religion is responsible for a lot of the evils of the world. I mean that's not really in debate. But at the same time, I think whatever gets you through the day, whatever helps you make sense of life I'm not gonna begrudge my grandmother with her rosary beads. It works for them. And at the end of the day, I don't claim to know the answer to anything.
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Suffering and evil will not have the last word.
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An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.
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Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant and ugly sound like scholars and movie stars, turned the mean and evil into saints and angels. She knew what people had meant to be in their hearts, not what the world had forced them to become. She knew the ways in which working too hard for paltry wages could turn you mean and cold, could kill the thing that made you laugh.
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When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
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There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.
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...What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.
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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.
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Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
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3 3 3. Only half evil.
