Evil Quotes
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Nobody is born evil.
Alice Miller
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I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
Vanessa Paradis
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I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.
Brion James
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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
William Godwin
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A lot of auditions are not fun; they're just a necessary evil, and, if you're lucky, you have a few moments that are fun.
Kristen Connolly
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I love men. But evil men? I will not tolerate that. You don't deserve to be in my presence. If you're going to rule this world, I am not going to contribute anymore until you change it.
Janelle Monae
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I'd love to play a villain in BBC drama 'Sherlock' - some sort of evil, slinky blonde would be right up my street.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
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Seek after the good, and with much toil shall ye find it; the evil turns up of itself without your seeking it.
Democritus
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The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.
Iain Pears
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In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
Victor Hugo
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Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.
Ted Dekker
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
Iris Chang
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It was this idea (Be nice!) that fueled liberals' rage at Reagan when he vanquished the Soviet Union with his macho 'cowboy diplomacy' that was going to get us all blown up. As the Times editorial page hysterically described Reagan's first year in office: 'Mr. Reagan looked at the world through gun sights.' Yes, he did! And now the Evil Empire is no more.
Ann Coulter
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It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
Dag Hammarskjold
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I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
Octavia E. Butler
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The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
Plutarch
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There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.
Dennis Prager
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
William Howard Taft
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Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Carl Jung
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I won't lie to you and make you believe what's evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way... the RIGHT way.
Phil Anselmo Pantera
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The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.
Garry Winogrand
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There came one who spoke of the shame of Jerusalem And the holy places defiled; Peter the Hermit, scourging with words. And among his hearers were a few good men, Many who were evil, And most who were neither, Like all men in all places.
T. S. Eliot
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft