Evil Quotes
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Through the wise ordering of Creation man has been given the power to shape conditions for himself with the Power of the Creator. Happy is he who uses it only for good! But woe unto him who succumbs to the temptation to use it for evil.
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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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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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We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
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Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.
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Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.
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It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.
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When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.
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You hate evil, but you don't hate the people that do evil. So, hate has to go out the window.
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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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And you, whiner, who wastes your time
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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
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We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.
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The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.
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There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.
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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.
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We sometimes feel the shadows have got hold of us, the shadows of evil. But still, it's up to us to fight.
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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.
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This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.
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Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.
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Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
