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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Evil requires the sanction of the victim."
Ayn Rand
"Evil requires the sanction of the victim."
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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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"Where liberty dies, evil grows."
Hamid Karzai
"Where liberty dies, evil grows."
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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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"Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not."
Mencius
"Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not."
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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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"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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"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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"Evil societies always kill their consciences."
James L. Farmer, Jr.
"Evil societies always kill their consciences."
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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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"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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"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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"They that know no evil will suspect none."
Ben Jonson
"They that know no evil will suspect none."
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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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"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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"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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"This is the very womb and bed of enormity."
Ben Jonson
"This is the very womb and bed of enormity."
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"Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor."
Dennis Prager
"Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor."
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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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"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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"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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"That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness."
Antonio Porchia
"That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness."
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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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"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes."
Seneca
"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes."
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"Afternoon classes - that evil invention!"
John Gresham Machen
"Afternoon classes - that evil invention!"
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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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"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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"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."
Saint Augustine
"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."
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