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Evil Quotes
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."
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"It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'."
37
"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,
37
"Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs."
37
"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."
36
"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."
36
"She's so small, yet she contains so much evil."
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"Be good to others, that will protect you against evil."
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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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"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."
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"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."
35
"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."
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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."
34
"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten."
34
"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."
33
"The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks."
32
"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."
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"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."
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"Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world."
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"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil."
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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."
31
"We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet."
31
"I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation."
Evil,
31
"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."
31
"The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good."
Evil,
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