"Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil."

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"We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us."

Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician

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"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."

Konrad Lorenz, Austrian Scientist

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"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

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"Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive."

Giraldus Cambrensis, Welsh Clergyman

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"If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?"

Alfred de Vigny, French Poet

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"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."

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"The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation."

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"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."

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"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."

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"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."

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"What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name."

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"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."

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