"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."

Evil, Opinion

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"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."

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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 whatever distracts."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!"

Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist

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"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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

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"Afternoon classes - that evil invention!"

John Gresham Machen, American Theologian

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"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"The evil thing is inside, not out."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

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"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."

Norman Mailer, American Novelist

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"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

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"All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions."

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"All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain."

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"As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another."

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"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."

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