Evil Quotes
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I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.
Etgar Keret
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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
Robert Frost
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I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.
George Arnold
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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.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
Sappho
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We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad." Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.
Andrew Solomon
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Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.
John Calvin
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... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.
Amelia Barr
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Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
George Eliot
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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.
Willem de Kooning
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'You have an evil mind!''And this is a bad thing how, exactly?'
Charles Stross
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'I have an idea. … If Ethan and Mark are so similar, we might as well arbitrarily assign them distinct personality traits. I know-Mark, from here on, you're to be called 'Evil Mark.''
Douglas Coupland
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It's so easy to say "evil Nazi monsters," but as soon as we do that, we take away the fact that it was individuals committing individual acts of murder. They had children, and what does that do? As soon as you generalize, they become monsters. It doesn't allow you to understand it in any kind of sophisticated way.
Cate Shortland
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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric Hoffer
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Never concede to evil.... When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.
David Farland
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I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.
Charlize Theron
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Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.
William Godwin
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I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.
Simon Sinek
