Evil Quotes
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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.
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It was the rotten fabric woven by evil, the overnight sham bulwarks of enemies of the people; it would burn to ash at the match of truth.
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The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.
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There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement.
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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.
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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
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I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.
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As I leafed through the book in front of me and watched the dust swirl in the air, I wondered if maybe there was some evil dormant virus in the pages that would infect me, like the mummy dust that used to kill archaeologists. Death by research. That was not a glorious end.
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Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all white persons as evil, if he fails to look beyond his circumstances. But the minute he looks beyond his circumstances and sees the whole of the situation, he discovers that some of the most implacable and vehement advocates of racial equality are consecrated white persons.
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Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.
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The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.
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Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
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Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.
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I feel, since 2001, this huge need for Americans to have superheroes on the screen. This idea that a super-being will protect you. That this being can go above the law but, at the end of the day, would be a good force and defeat the evil. This idea that this half-god exists. This need in the subconscious of America to find these gods.
