Evil Quotes
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The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
John Rawls
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God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.
Barack Obama
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A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.
Seneca the Younger
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Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles.
Benjamin Wiker
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It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.
Eleanor Farjeon
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We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.
Martin Heidegger
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Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.
LL Cool J
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise Pascal
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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Epictetus
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Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.
Ambrose
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Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
Frank A. Clark
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You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
Bill Gates
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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.
William Law
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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.
Saint Augustine
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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.
N.D. Wilson
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You cloak your evil, your violence, in the mask of good. I am just evil.
Carrie Jones
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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.
Plato
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Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.
Eleanor Farjeon
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If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
William Penn
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Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!
William Shakespeare
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Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.
Sophocles
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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.
John Stuart Mill
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What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.
John Podhoretz