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Evil Quotes


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


"Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor."



"Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will."


"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse."


"Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil."


"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world."


"It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling."


"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?"
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"Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended."


"When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate."


"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."



"An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through."



"In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive."


"I almost told her everything right then. I wanted to tell her about the Wolves, and how I was supposed to hate them, but when you spend your days with evil, some of it is bound to soak into your clothes, like cigar smoke in a closed room."


"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces."
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"Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity."


"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."


"Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down."



"January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead."
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"You can best fight any existing evil from the inside."


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


"Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything."


"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare."



"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."


"Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs."
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