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"They that know no evil will suspect none."
Ben Jonson
"They that know no evil will suspect none."
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"You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe."
Ben Affleck
"You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe."
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"Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse."
Philip Zimbardo
"Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse."
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"All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil."
Ovid
"All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil."
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"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."
Margaret Mead
"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."
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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."
Immanuel Kant
"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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"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."
Daniel Okrent
"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."
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"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world."
Emile M. Cioran
"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world."
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"The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it."
Hesiod
"The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels 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."
Johann Kaspar Lavater
"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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"That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness."
Antonio Porchia
"That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness."
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"No one who errs unwillingly is evil."
Sophocles
"No one who errs unwillingly is 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?"
Johann Kaspar Lavater
"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."
William Vickrey
"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare."
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"I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily."
Kelly Hu
"I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily."
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"Active Evil is better than Passive Good."
William Blake
"Active Evil is better than Passive Good."
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"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."
Benjamin Whichcote
"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."
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"He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner."
Hesiod
"He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner."
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"This is the very womb and bed of enormity."
Ben Jonson
"This is the very womb and bed of enormity."
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"When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate."
Knut Hamsun
"When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate."
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"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."
Anne Rice
"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."
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"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."
Charles Kingsley
"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."
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"He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it."
Rosario Dawson
"He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it."
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"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil."
Robert Kennedy
"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil."
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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."
William Bernbach
"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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"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."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"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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"Keep what you have; the known evil is best."
Titus Maccius Plautus
"Keep what you have; the known evil is best."
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"We are all born marked for evil."
Charles Baudelaire
"We are all born marked for evil."
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"Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended."
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended."
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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."
Lars von Trier
"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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"That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World."
William Petty
"That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World."
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"What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. "A web we men weave." Ged answered."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. "A web we men weave." Ged answered."
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"To do no evil is good, to intend none better."
Claudius
"To do no evil is good, to intend none better."
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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."
Lester Bangs
"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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"An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through."
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"Evil changes everybody!"
Vincent D'Onofrio
"Evil changes everybody!"
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"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."
Augustus Hare
"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."
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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."
Frank Luntz
"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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"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse."
Adlai E. Stevenson
"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse."
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"Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme."
John Carpenter
"Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme."
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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."
Jorge Luis Borges
"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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"To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better."
Claudius
"To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better."
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"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."
Plutarch
"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."
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"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."
Jerry Garcia
"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."
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"This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good."
Howard Dean
"This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good."
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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."
Philip Zimbardo
"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."
F. H. Bradley
"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."
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"I don't think good and evil are polarized."
Sam Mendes
"I don't think good and evil are polarized."
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"Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity."
Louise Bogan
"Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity."
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"Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs."
Georg Trakl
"Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs."
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