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

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

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"Evil Dead film sounds like the Red Hood, but this time the bad red hood."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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David Sarnoff, American Inventor

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"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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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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"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

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"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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Samuel Butler, British Poet

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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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"There is no possible source of evil except good."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

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Buddha, Indian Leader

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"Evil Dead film sounds like the Red Hood, but this time the bad red hood."

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

"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."

"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."

"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."

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"There is no possible source of evil except good."

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"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

"One hardly saves a world without ruling it."

"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."

"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."

"Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls."