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"Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil."
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"The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is..."
"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless."
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"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."
"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."
"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."
"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
"But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference."
"As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking."
"The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men."
"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."
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