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"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."
Terry Pratchett
"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."
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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."
Thomas Foran
"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."
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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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"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
"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."
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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."
William James
"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."
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"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."
Robin Sacredfire
"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."
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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."
Norman Mailer
"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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"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."
W. Somerset Maugham
"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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"I think there are some very evil things about gentrification."
Jim McKay
"I think there are some very evil things about gentrification."
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"There is no evil in the world without a remedy."
Jacopo Sannazaro
"There is no evil in the world without a remedy."
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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."
Gene Wolfe
"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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"I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful."
Kathleen Raine
"I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful."
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"Oh Satan you're a wily one."
Craig Ferguson
"Oh Satan you're a wily one."
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"We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come."
Maria W. Chapman
"We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come."
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"In the world we make good as evil and evil as good."
James Caviezel
"In the world we make good as evil and evil as good."
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"How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!"
Elizabeth Gaskell
"How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!"
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"That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God."
Ann Voskamp
"That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God."
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"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil."
Elie Wiesel
"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil."
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"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good."
W. H. Auden
"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good."
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"Evil is whatever distracts."
Franz Kafka
"Evil is whatever distracts."
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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
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"There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution."
Franz Kafka
"There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution."
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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
George Carlin
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
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"Not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside."
Fredrik Backman
"Not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside."
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"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man."
Franz Kafka
"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man."
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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."
Thomas Hardy
"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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"It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small."
Bob Thaves
"It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small."
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"Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood."
Dean Koontz
"Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood."
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"The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is..."
Jasper Fforde
"The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is..."
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"The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive."
Henry Miller
"The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive."
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"When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil."
Charles Dickens
"When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil."
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"A great book is like great evil."
Callimachus
"A great book is like great evil."
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"I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance " You oh God " towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter."
Saint Augustine
"I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance " You oh God " towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter."
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"The evil thing is inside, not out."
Suzanne Collins
"The evil thing is inside, not out."
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"Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking."
Jim Butcher
"Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking."
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"Evil counsel travels fast."
Sophocles
"Evil counsel travels fast."
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"I don't believe in raw evil.' Noah said, 'It doesn't care if you believe in it'."
Maggie Stiefvater
"I don't believe in raw evil.' Noah said, 'It doesn't care if you believe in it'."
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"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."
Agatha Christie
"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."
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"If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet."
Bangambiki Habyarimana
"If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet."
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"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
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"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."
Bangambiki Habyarimana
"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."
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"We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people."
Dean Koontz
"We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people."
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"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."
Rick Riordan
"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."
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"The real thing about evil, you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret."
Gregory Maguire
"The real thing about evil, you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret."
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"I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, end of the film, end of the evil... This how it must go and it will go, if you think that evil has gone it's still here. If you believe in god, that's means that you believe this evil."
Deyth Banger
"I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, end of the film, end of the evil... This how it must go and it will go, if you think that evil has gone it's still here. If you believe in god, that's means that you believe this evil."
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"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
E. M. Forster
"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
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"Sometimes evil didn't need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was."
Nenia Campbell
"Sometimes evil didn't need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was."
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"All evil is good become cancerous."
Isaac Asimov
"All evil is good become cancerous."
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"Evil is only good perverted."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Evil is only good perverted."
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"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."
Bertrand Russell
"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."
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