Evil Quotes
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If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
C. S. Lewis
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That there is pain and evil, is no ruleThat I should make it greater, like a fool.
Leigh Hunt
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Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void. This reduction of the myriad of forms to only two was the ultimate in dualistic reasoning. Christianity adopted dualism when it created the strict division between good and evil and heaven and hell.
Leonard Shlain
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All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.
Gautama Buddha
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No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
Sophocles
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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
Desmond Tutu
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato
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As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
Richard Holbrooke
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I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.
Drew Curtis
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The root of the whole evil lay, particularly in Schonerer's opinion, in the fact that the directing body of the Catholic Church was not in Germany, and that for this very reason alone it was hostile to the interests of our nationality.
Adolf Hitler
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Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State.
Lincoln Steffens
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While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
Dorothy Leigh Sayers
