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Evil Quotes
"January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead."
Evil,
32
"Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs."
32
"But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster."
32
"Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it."
32
"It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine."
31
"Be good to others, that will protect you against evil."
31
"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."
31
"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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"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."
30
"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten."
30
"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil."
30
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."
29
"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."
29
"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."
29
"Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil."
29
"It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'."
28
"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."
28
"She's so small, yet she contains so much evil."
28
"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."
28
"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."
27
"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."
27
"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."
26
"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."
26
"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."
26
"Rincewind stared, and knew that there were far worse things than Evil. All the demons in Hell would torture your very soul, but that was precisely because they valued souls very highly; evil would always try to steal the universe, but at least it considered the universe worth stealing. But the gray world behind those empty eyes would trample and destroy without even according its victims the dignity of hatred. It wouldn't even notice them."
25
"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,
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