Evil Quotes
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If there were just one possibility—either to do the good or to combat evil—man would have to opt for the first.
Adrienne von Speyr
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Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
John Milton
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Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.
John Shelby Spong
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My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.
Marina and the Diamonds
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In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.
Marcus Luttrell
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You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.
Jennifer Beals
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God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.
Mark Hart Crowded House
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Confronting this question takes us beyond a world where the line between good and evil is sharp and bright, into a gray confusion where navigation was soul-trying work.
Andrew Delbanco
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Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to deal with your peers and to hide behind your social awkwardness and inabilities and inadequacies.
Blake Judd
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The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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However, I never thought that George W. Bush himself was, in any sense, "evil."
Nat Hentoff
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But-criminals are remote from you-as in love, they turn away and turn me away from the world and its laws. Thiers smells of sweat, sperm, and blood. In short, to my body and my thristy soul it offers devotion. It was because their world contains these erotic conditions that I was bent on evil.
Jean Genet
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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
George Bernard Shaw
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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.
Ben Affleck
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You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.
Ernest Cline
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But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.
Caitlin Thomas
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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
John Stuart Mill
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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
George Bernard Shaw
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What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
Philip Zimbardo
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Are we lost, or are we found at last? On earth we strive for our various needs, because so goes the fundamental law of man. Aloft, at least for a little while, the needs disappear. Likewise the striving. In the thoughts of man aloft, food and evil become mixed and sometimes reversed. This is the open door to wisdom. Aloft, the earth is ancient and man is young, regardless of his numbers, for there, aloft he may reaffirm his suspicions that he may not be so very much. This is the gateway to humility.
Ernest K. Gann
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Not good vs evil. Only good vs evil is inside of you
Mindy Sterling
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Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?
Maureen Dowd
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Even people that are evil believe what they're doing is good. I don't agree with those people, but it's about understanding that there are those kinds of points of view.
Masi Oka
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When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.
Plutarch