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Evil Quotes



"We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'"


"Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives."


"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it."


"To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad."



"In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat."


"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."


"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."


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


"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."



"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."


"He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil."


"In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman."


"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."


"Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing."


"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."


"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."


"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."


"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."


"Evil societies always kill their consciences."


"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."



"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table."


"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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"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."


"How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question."


"Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate."



"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil."



"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."


"This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good."


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