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Evil Quotes


"You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe."


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


"Evil is a point of view ... God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately ... for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves.God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves."


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


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


"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."


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


"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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"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."


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


"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."


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


"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."


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


"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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"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."



"Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity."


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