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Evil Quotes


"Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives."


"It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts."


"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it."


"He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil."


"We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'"


"To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad."


"Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs."


"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."


"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."


"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."


"How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question."


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


"The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks."


"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."


"We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet."


"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."


"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."


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


"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."


"An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through."


"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil."
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"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."


"Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will."


"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."


"It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."
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