Evil Quotes
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Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.
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The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.
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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?
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Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.
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To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.
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Our obligation is to refuse to let bad win, to refuse to let evil hold the field.
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I challenge anyone to tell me there isn't evil in this world.
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No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.
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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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The man is ugly, the man is evil, and the man is in love. This is gonna be an American classic.
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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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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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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.
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Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.
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Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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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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Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.
