"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."

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"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."

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

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

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"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it."

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"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil."

Elie Wiesel, American Novelist

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"Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world."

Robert Hughes, Australian Critic

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"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare."

William Vickrey, Canadian Educator

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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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"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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"Some people are so evil when they enter a house, happiness escapes through the window and unhappiness and fear installed in its place."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."

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"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn."

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"Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart."

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"Every law is an infraction of liberty."

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