Evil Quotes
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A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.
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Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.
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The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.
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A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
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Today, terrorism threatens a great number of states, a great number of people - hundreds of thousands, millions of people suffer from its criminal activity. And we all face the task of joining our efforts in the fight against this common evil.
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I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
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My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired and lusted after many men's wives and daughters, is a fact, but they could not help that. They or most of them considered his admiration an insult, and treated him with scorn. In return for this scorn, he generally managed to blacken their reputations - see the case of... Mrs. Pratt, a good, virtuous woman.
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The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply not revealed to us. Rather, in the moment of the cross, it becomes clear that evil is utterly subverted for good.... If God can take the greatest of evils and turn them for the greatest of goods, then how much more can he take the lesser evils which litter human history, from individual tragedies to international disasters, and turn them to his good purpose as well.
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Being against evil doesn't make you good.
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You see how good and evil are twisted together? Like a golden dragon bracelet snaking brightly about a person's arm.
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
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If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
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The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.
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The devil doesn't stay where there is music.
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All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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And out of good still to find means of evil.
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The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.
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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.
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Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.
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And empty words are evil.
