"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world."

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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

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"Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Evil, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it."

Bryan Singer, American Director

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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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"Evil stinks and it doesn't disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed."

Dan Groat, American Author

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"Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian Novelist

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"Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us."

William Kunstler, American Activist

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"Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons."

Rudy Rucker, American Scientist

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"This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, American Clergyman

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"Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you."

Phaedrus, Roman Poet

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

"What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it."

"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."

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