Evil Quotes
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.
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Hate cannot be fought with hate. Evil cannot be conquered by darkness. Only love has the power to conquer them both.
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How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
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Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.
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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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Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.
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It is only the densest ethical ignorance that talks about a "Christian business" life; for business is now intrinsically evil.
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And empty words are evil.
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...wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
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The lobbies of the new hotels and the Pan American Building exhale a chill as from the unopened Pharaonic tombs... And in their marble labyrinths there is an evil presence that hates warmth and sunlight.
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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.
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No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.
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Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the high tower of the dwelling place of God, all these supposes will drop out of our lives. We shall be quiet from the fear of evil, for no threatenings of evil can penetrate into the high tower of God.
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Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
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I do sin, but I am not the devil.
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Evil to him who evil thinks.
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I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
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... Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me... Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
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I know there's a lot of emotion going into a fight, but everything in a fight - none of it comes out of an evil heart.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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We'll see She-Hulk fighting evil everywhere from the boardroom to the Bowery, using her mind as much as her fists.
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There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
