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Evil Quotes

"The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it."

"The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it."

Hesiod, Greek Poet

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"I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily."

"I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily."

Kelly Hu, American Actress

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"Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it."

"Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil."

"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil."

David Sarnoff, American Inventor

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"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."

"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."

Plutarch, Greek Philosopher

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"I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong."

"I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong."

Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist

Evil, Will, Wrong

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"I think that episode in the third season was great. I'm really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he's a rock star."

"I think that episode in the third season was great. I'm really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he's a rock star."

Bradley Cooper, American Actor

Evil, Mission, Sleep

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"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."

"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."

Max Lerner, American Journalist

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"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."

"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."

"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."

Charles Kingsley, English Clergyman

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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."

"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, American Critic

Evil, Media, Television, Ugly

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"Evil changes everybody!"

"Evil changes everybody!"

Vincent D'Onofrio, American Actor

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"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."

"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."

Jerry Garcia, American Musician

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"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."

"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Evil, Will, Wrong

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"Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good."

"Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian Novelist

Evil, Name, World

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"We are all born marked for evil."

"We are all born marked for evil."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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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."

"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, English Economist

Evil, Old, Will, World

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"You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything."

"You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything."

Ralph Fiennes, British Actor

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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."

"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."

Bryan Singer, American Director

Evil, Complexity, Help, Respect, Understanding

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"Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil."

"Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil."

William Godwin, English Writer

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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."

"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, American Novelist

Evil, God, Morality, Power

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"It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine."

"It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

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"It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'."

"It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'."

Charles Simmons, American Author

Evil, Misfortune

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"No one who errs unwillingly is evil."

"No one who errs unwillingly is evil."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Evil be to him who evil thinks."

"Evil be to him who evil thinks."

Edward II, English Royalty

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

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

F. H. Bradley, British Philosopher

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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."

"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, American Novelist

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"She's so small, yet she contains so much evil."

"She's so small, yet she contains so much evil."

Christopher Moore, American Novelist

Evil, Appearance, Contrast, Darkness

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"Dialogue is a necessary evil."

"Dialogue is a necessary evil."

Fred Zinnemann, American Director

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"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."

"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

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"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again."

"Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again."

Evelyn Underhill, English Writer

Evil, Interest, Thinking

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"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten."

"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

Evil, Wickedness

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"Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you."

"Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you."

Phaedrus, Roman Poet

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"This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man."

"This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, American Clergyman

Evil, Man, Vice

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"It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of."

"It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

Evil, Gain, Loss, Proof

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"Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us."

"Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us."

William Kunstler, American Activist

Evil, Forget, Struggle

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"When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it."

"When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it."

Lewis B. Smedes, American Theologian

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"Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2."

"Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2."

Shane West, American Actor

Evil, Favorite, Now, Right

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"The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good."

"The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good."

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, American Writer

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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."

"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, German Philosopher

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"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."

"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."

Maria Montessori, Italian Educator

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"Be good to others, that will protect you against evil."

"Be good to others, that will protect you against evil."

Abu Bakr, Saudi Arabian Statesman

Evil, Will, Saudiarabian

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"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."

"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."

Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician

Evil, Prohibition, Will

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"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."

"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."

Robin Sacredfire, Portuguese Philosopher

Evil, Cruelty, Pleasure, Malice, Enjoyment

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"Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man."

"Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man."

Hesiod, Greek Poet

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"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."

"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."

Thomas Foran, American Lawyer

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"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."

"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."

Horace Mann, American Educator

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"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."

"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."

George H. Mead, American Philosopher

Evil, Reason, Spirits

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"There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth."

"There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth."

William James, American Philosopher

Evil, Truth, Reality, Philosophy

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