Evil Quotes
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I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?
Marjane Satrapi
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
Garrison Keillor
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We are a race of women that of old knew no fear and feared no death, and lived great lives and hoped great hopes; and if today some of us have fallen on evil and degenerate times, there moves in us yet the throb of the old blood.
Olive Schreiner
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Caine was no longer the icon of evil, the Enemy of God, the author of all the world's ills. He had become simply what he was: a ruthless, amoral man, now beaten-crushed by the world, just like any other.
Matthew Stover
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
Sam Mendes
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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
Charles Dickens
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Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake
H. L. Mencken
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If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.
Joel Kinnaman
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Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
Aristotle
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Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.
Gautama Buddha
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
Taya Kyle
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I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?
Charles Portis
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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Socrates
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The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
Ramana Maharshi
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I don't think quotas are necessarily an evil. I think when we look at industry in general back to the '60s and the '50s, the way more diverse people like my dad and mom's generation were able to break into industry was because of affirmation action, because of quotas.
Kimberly Bryant
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
Orhan Pamuk
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To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.
D. B. Weiss
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People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.
William Shakespeare
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You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.
William Shakespeare
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Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie