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Evil Quotes
"The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good."
Evil,
6
"How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question."
5
"Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse."
5
"When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable."
5
"You can best fight any existing evil from the inside."
5
"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."
5
"You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe."
5
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."
4
"It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'."
4
"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces."
Evil,
4
"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."
4
"In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive."
4
"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world."
4
"I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful."
4
"Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world."
4
"We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us."
4
"Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil."
4
"It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine."
3
"We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet."
3
"There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it."
3
"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse."
3
"Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them."
3
"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."
3
"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man."
3
"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
3
"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare."
3
"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."
Evil,
3
"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
3
"Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs."
3
"Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure."
3
"But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster."
3
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