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Evil Quotes
"No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration."
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"Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it."
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"Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will."
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"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."
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"Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity."
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"This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good."
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"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil."
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"Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended."
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"When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate."
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"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse."
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"You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe."
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"Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil."
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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."
Evil,
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"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."
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"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."
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"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces."
Evil,
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"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?"
Evil,
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"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world."
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"Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs."
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"What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it."
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"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."
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"An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through."
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"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."
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"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."
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"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."
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"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."
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"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."
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"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."
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"In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive."
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"You can best fight any existing evil from the inside."
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"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."
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"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare."
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