"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil."

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"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil."

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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Evil, Ugly

"The evil thing is inside, not out."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Evil, Truth, Life, Darkness

"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"

Johann Kaspar Lavater, German Theologian

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"The real thing about evil, you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret."

Gregory Maguire, American Novelist

Evil, Mystery, Secrecy, Inquiry

"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."

Robin Sacredfire, Portuguese Philosopher

Evil, Cruelty, Pleasure, Malice, Enjoyment

"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Evil, Truth, Power, Life, Regret

"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Evil, Madness, Nothing

"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."

Benjamin Whichcote, British Philosopher

Evil, Measure

"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

Evil, Fascism, Victims

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"The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory."

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"Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving."

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"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death."

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"Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us."

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"Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness."

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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

"The evil thing is inside, not out."

"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"

"The real thing about evil, you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret."

"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."

"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes."

"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."

"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."

"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

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"The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory."

"Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe."

"Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving."

"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death."

"What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish."

"Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth."

"I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself."

"Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job."

"Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us."

"Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness."