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"If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains."
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"We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'"
Stuart Appleby
"We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'"
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"The greatest evil is physical pain."
Saint Augustine
"The greatest evil is physical pain."
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"Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice."
Abu Bakr
"Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice."
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"Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives."
Abu Bakr
"Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives."
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"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it."
Baltasar Gracian
"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it."
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"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems."
Linus Torvalds
"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems."
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"To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad."
Abu Bakr
"To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad."
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"In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat."
Sun Myung Moon
"In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat."
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"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
Niccolo Machiavelli
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
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"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."
Ayn Rand
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."
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"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."
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"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."
Jeremy Bentham
"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."
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"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."
Aleister Crowley
"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."
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"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good."
Thomas Aquinas
"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good."
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"Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like."
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"We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place."
Joseph de Maistre
"We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place."
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"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil."
William Gibson
"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil."
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"When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable."
Max Lerner
"When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable."
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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
"Some people are so evil when they enter a house, happiness escapes through the window and unhappiness and fear installed in its place."
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"He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil."
Emanuel Swedenborg
"He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil."
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"In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman."
Craig Bruce
"In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman."
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"All human beings are commingled out of good and evil."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"All human beings are commingled out of good and evil."
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"Evil requires the sanction of the victim."
Ayn Rand
"Evil requires the sanction of the victim."
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"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."
Konrad Lorenz
"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."
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"Where liberty dies, evil grows."
Hamid Karzai
"Where liberty dies, evil grows."
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"Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing."
Andrew McCarthy
"Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing."
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"All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil."
Ovid
"All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil."
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"Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not."
Mencius
"Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not."
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"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."
Daniel Okrent
"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."
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"Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent."
John Calvin
"Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent."
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"I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be."
Charles Van Doren
"I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be."
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"It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts."
Carl Jung
"It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts."
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"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."
Jim Morrison
"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."
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"They that know no evil will suspect none."
Ben Jonson
"They that know no evil will suspect none."
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"Evil societies always kill their consciences."
James L. Farmer, Jr.
"Evil societies always kill their consciences."
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"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."
Margaret Mead
"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."
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"The face of evil is always the face of total need."
William S. Burroughs
"The face of evil is always the face of total need."
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"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table."
W. H. Auden
"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table."
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"More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all."
Lars von Trier
"More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all."
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"He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner."
Hesiod
"He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner."
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"You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation."
Jennifer Beals
"You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation."
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"How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question."
Lytton Strachey
"How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question."
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"Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate."
Ralph Steadman
"Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate."
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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
"Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?"
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"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil."
Robert Kennedy
"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil."
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"The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil."
Jean Baudrillard
"The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil."
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"This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good."
Howard Dean
"This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good."
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"Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme."
John Carpenter
"Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme."
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"No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration."
Martin Van Buren
"No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration."
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