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If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of ev...

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I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. I submit myself to His ...

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There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, war...

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T. H. WhiteThe Once and Future King

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

The world turns and the world changes,But one thing does not change.In all of my years, one thing do...

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Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman’s tongue? What good was ...

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The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing wi...

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I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of th...

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Teresa of ÁvilaThe Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself

I cannot think why we should be astonished at all the evils which exist in the Church, when those wh...

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Teresa of ÁvilaThe Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, ...

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You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?

Rincewind stared, and knew that there were far worse things than Evil. All the demons in Hell would ...

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And just when you’d think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally sh...

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... it is to your credit that you recognize that if he was a monster then it was other monstrous thi...

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Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more then Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

What was it that Granny Weatherwax had said once? "Evil starts when you begin to treat people as thi...

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Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the pota...

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The Patrician took a sip of his beer. “I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I ne...

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And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every...

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It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed.""That's because you're basically goo...

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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil...

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I have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the o...

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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

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Thomas MannThe Magic Mountain

In the use of force, one simplifies the situation by assuming that the evil to be overcome is clear-...

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Thomas MertonGandhi On Non-Violence

I was entering into a moral universe in which I would be related to every other rational being, and ...

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Thomas MertonThe Seven Storey Mountain

We overcome the evil in the world by the charity and compassion of God, and in so doing we drive all...

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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evi...

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Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the le...

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Mr Winckler clapped his hands together. “Evil, as personified by me. Meet the new Dark Lord. But you...

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Tom HoltThe Good

He believes it’s time to redesign Evil from the ground up; to face the challenges and opportunities ...

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Tom HoltThe Good

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of w...

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Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from...

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Tom RobbinsJitterbug Perfume

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we misse...

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Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of ...

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Then -- they saw the Groke. Everybody saw her. She sat motionless on the sandy path at the bottom of...

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Tove JanssonFinn Family Moomintroll

It seems that, once introduced into public life, evil easily perpetuates itself, whereas good is alw...

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Tzvetan TodorovThe Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust

Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeug...

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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

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Ursula K. Le GuinA Wizard of Earthsea

The devil is not the prince of matter; the devil is the arrogance of spirit, faith without smile, tr...

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Umberto EcoThe Name of the Rose

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious convictio...

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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and...

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In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called ...

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On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terr...

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He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death wit...

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To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them bot...

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Farthest Shore

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering hap...

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and...

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There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything ev...

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My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the...

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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis...

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I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and...

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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge i...

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Human reason can excuse any evil.

Evil is ancient, unchanging, and with us always. The more postmodern the West becomes — affluent, le...

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The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.

This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, th...

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Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, i...

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Grant Allen once said that an Englishman's idea of God was another Englishman twelve feet high, and ...

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Vincent StarrettBorn in a Bookshop: Chapters from the Chicago Renascence

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evi...

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VoltairePoem Upon the Lisbon Disaster

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly ref...

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W. E. B. Du BoisThe Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century

The enlightenment driven away,The habit-forming pain,Mismanagement and grief:We must suffer them all...

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And maps can really point to placesWhere life is evil now:Nanking. Dachau.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1939I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever ho...

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Evil is unspectacular and always human,And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as...

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I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one ...

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He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather...

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

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He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather...

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

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He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather...

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

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He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather...

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

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It is very seldom that one encounters what would appear to be sheer unadulterated evil in a human fa...

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Walter de la MareGhost Stories

I believe in the devil, in the Powers of Darkness, Lawford, as firmly as I believe he and they are p...

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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial co...

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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy c...

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Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men ...

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Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement a...

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-No, not it...I mean...what makes things break up like they do?-Piggy rubbed his glasses slowly and ...

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It may be that no religious reconciliation with the absolute totality of things is possible. Some ev...

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There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evi...

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The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Be...

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At Dachau. We had a wonderful pool for the garrison children. It was even heated. But that was befor...

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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer,...

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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is...

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She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth...

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