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"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."
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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."
"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."
"I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, end of the film, end of the evil... This how it must go and it will go, if you think that evil has gone it's still here. If you believe in god, that's means that you believe this evil."
"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man."
"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
"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."
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does."
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"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."
"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
"Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male."
"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."
"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."
"We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it."
"Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there."
"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
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