Evil Quotes
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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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It is forbidden to dwell in the vicinity of any of those with an evil tongue, and all the more to sit with them and listen to their words.
Maimonides
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There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans have left behind them, both good and evil, and that any such spiritual accumulation can stay there forever, past definition of such a stern word.
M. F. K. Fisher
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Being critical of Tom Cruise is being critical of Scientology itself. You are evil.
Leah Remini
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I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.
Warren Spector
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When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.
Marilynne Robinson
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You can make the Ring an allegory of our own time, if you like: an allegory of the inevitable fate that awaits all attempts to defeat evil power by power. But that is only because all power magical or mechanical does always so work.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The twin-evil against which the prophets launched the condemnation of Jehovah was injustice and oppression.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
Saint Augustine
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Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.
Stevie Wonder
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Sharpe's sword was lucky. There was a soldier's goddess and her name was Fate and she had liked the sword Harper made for Sharpe. The Kligenthal was stained with the blood of friends, with the torture of flayed priests, and the beautiful sword contained not luck, but evil.
Bernard Cornwell
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I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.
Christopher Walken
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Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.
Abba Hillel Silver
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Poetry is a purging of the world's poverty and change and evil and death. It is a present perfecting, a satisfaction in the irremediable poverty of life.
Wallace Stevens
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By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which other are just as entitled to as we are.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
Jeremy Bentham
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We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.
Angelina Jolie
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It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
Martin Amis
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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
T. S. Eliot
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I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.
Donald Miller
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I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.
Charles Van Doren
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Elie Wiesel