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Evil Quotes
"Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world."
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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."
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"I almost told her everything right then. I wanted to tell her about the Wolves, and how I was supposed to hate them, but when you spend your days with evil, some of it is bound to soak into your clothes, like cigar smoke in a closed room."
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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 most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good."
Evil,
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"It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine."
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"We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet."
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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."
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"You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree."
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"You can best fight any existing evil from the inside."
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"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."
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"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."
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"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."
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"Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil."
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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."
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"It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'."
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"January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead."
Evil,
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"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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"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless."
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"The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks."
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"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
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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."
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