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

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Evil, Truth, Horror, Life

"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

Evil, Truth, Power, Wisdom

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

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

Evil,

"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."

Buddha, Indian Leader

Evil, Purity

"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"

Johann Kaspar Lavater, German Theologian

Evil,

"No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration."

Martin Van Buren, American President

Evil, Result

"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."

Benjamin Whichcote, British Philosopher

Evil, Measure

"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Evil, Mystery

"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

Evil, Truth, Awareness, Danger

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

Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist

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"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

Dissent

"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question."

Obvious

"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

Learning

"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."

Trust

"We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams."

Dream

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

Gratitude

"It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it."

Love

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

"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."

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

"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."

"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"

"No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration."

"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."

"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

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

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

Explore more quotes by Eric Hoffer

"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question."

"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."

"We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams."

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."

"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

"It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it."