Evil Quotes
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There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.
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It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow.
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So many lives I touch, so much anger.
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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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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
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An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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Evil to him who evil thinks.
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Power is not happiness.
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Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.
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Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.
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To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.
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I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.
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He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.
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It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.
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I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
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It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The crucial distinction lies in their structure, i.e., the manner in which the pieces are assembled. Evil is disintegration, an angry juxtaposition of alienated opposites, with parts always striving to repress other parts. Good is the synthesis and reconciliation of these same pieces.
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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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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
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'They were right. The Soviet régime is not the embodiment of evil as you think in the West. They have laws and I broke them. I hate tea and they love tea. Who is wrong?
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I honestly don't see how anyone can view the GOP and the Right as anything but evil.
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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.
