"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."

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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."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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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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"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."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Evil is whatever distracts."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"The face of evil is always the face of total need."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

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"No one who errs unwillingly is evil."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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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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"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."

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"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell."

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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."

"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."

"Evil is whatever distracts."

"The face of evil is always the face of total need."

"No one who errs unwillingly is evil."

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

"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."

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"Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics."

"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."

"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."

"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."

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"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."

"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales."

"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell."