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Evil Quotes
"The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil."
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"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,
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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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"You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation."
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"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil."
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"How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question."
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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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"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil."
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"In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive."
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"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world."
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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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"You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe."
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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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"We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet."
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"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."
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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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"An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through."
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"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse."
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"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."
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"You can best fight any existing evil from the inside."
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"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."
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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."
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"Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended."
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"More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all."
Evil,
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"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
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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,
7
"Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil."
7
"When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate."
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"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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"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 may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."
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