Evil Quotes
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People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.
Terry Eagleton
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This new birth in Christ, thus firmly believed and continually desired, will do everything that thou wantest to have done in thee, it will dry up all the springs of vice, stop all the workings of evil in thy nature, it will bring all that is good into thee, it will open all the gospel within thee, and thou wilt know what it is to be taught of God.
William Law
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If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
Dennis Prager
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In order to be good, you must recognize the difference between right and wrong and strive to choose the right. To be truly evil you must do the contrary. Being good or evil is a choice.
Brandon Mull
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I think we have a very Disneyfied, sterilized version of what an evil witch is nowadays.
Anya Taylor-Joy
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The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
Margaret Walker
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To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
William Hazlitt
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Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.
William of Tyre
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An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.
Alberto Moravia
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Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.
Epictetus
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
Bodhidharma
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Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.
Thomas Harris
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Fathers, I do not practice. I’m not religious in life, but when I perform 'The Creation of the World' and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of 'Good and Evil', then God enters in me.
Marcel Marceau
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A lot of Christians look at Hollywood as the ultimate evil. But what it did for me is it sharpened my ability to love people and appreciate people, no matter where they're at in their lives.
Jonathan Jackson
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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.
James Stephens
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato
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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.
Thomas More
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To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
Georges Bataille
