Evil Quotes
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He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Let us contradict ourselves because we change. Let us be good and evil, true and false, beautiful and loathsome. We are all of these anyway. Let us admit it by accepting movement. Let us be static! Be static!
Jean Tinguely
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I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.
William Styron
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I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.
Jack White The White Stripes
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We must not be frightened nor cajoled/ into accepting evil as deliverance from evil./ We must go on struggling to be human,/ though monsters of abstractions/ police and threaten us.
B. R. Hayden
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare
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Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.
Andrea Barrett
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
Oscar Wilde
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Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.
Eric Burdon
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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
Plato
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Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand,Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land?Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis Truth alone is strong,And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throngTroops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong.
James Russell Lowell
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Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
Arthur Powell Davies
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Evil gains work their punishment.
Sophocles
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Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
Christopher Plummer
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It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
Charles Simmons
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Practicing yoga is Satanic, it leads to evil just like reading Harry Potter.
Gabriele Amorth
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To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.
Manu Bennett
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It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we were more willing to accept each other's depravity we'd be more united, we'd be more honest. If you hide two things from me, I'll assume you're hiding a million. And I'll keep you at a distance. I'm not afraid of the evil in you. It's in me too.
Donald Miller
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Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.
Freya Stark
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I appreciate the craft in 'Bioshock' and 'Resident Evil,' and I've played all of them. But I also learned that I don't like playing them because I get really scared.
Dan Trachtenberg
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We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.
Saint Basil
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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
Orson Scott Card
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If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.
Charles Sumner
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Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured.
Carlo Collodi