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The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.

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H. G. WellsCrux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church

Suppose, and the facts leave us quite free to suppose it, suppose that the latent sapiens in us succ...

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H. G. WellsYou Can't Be Too Careful

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of thos...

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You are quite right, I changed my mind and do no longer speak of “radical evil.” … It is indeed my o...

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the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse...

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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In...

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Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of tempta...

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Hannah ArendtEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme, for it possesses neither dep...

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Hannah ArendtEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a ...

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In a covenant...among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private p...

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There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The s...

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He might have hurt me a little,' Atticus conceded, 'but sn, you'll understand folks a little better ...

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In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fi...

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In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fi...

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I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was...

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I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things...

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I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was...

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The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I ...

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may ...

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Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of soc...

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Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak spec...

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being ...

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With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, though readily enough he could hide it; apprehendi...

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The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

And empty words are evil.

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, bu...

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Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether...

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Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some swee...

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Honoré de BalzacThe Human Comedy: Selected Stories

There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about h...

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Now that little problem of yours, this business of not knowing good men from bad men and villains fr...

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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad i...

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All evil is good become cancerous.

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach ...

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It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-""She's foul enough to be one...""...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even ch...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

A risk to own anything: a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around, not...

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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?''As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill...

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It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of ...

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In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or an...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Return of the King

All his court were cast down in slumber, and all the fires faded and were quenched; but the Silmaril...

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With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and th...

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I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know...

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Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnati...

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James HoggThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses ...

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James MadisonThe Federalist Papers

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to h...

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You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and t...

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Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in...

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Jane YolenThe Devil's Arithmetic

The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered som...

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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

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Jasper FfordeThe Eyre Affair

I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve...

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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them their notions of good and ...

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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the know...

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The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince peopl...

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The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by...

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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 w...

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No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the h...

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You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture referen...

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You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black t...

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Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and i...

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The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to w...

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Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of th...

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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a go...

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Jimmy CarterThe Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

Magic isn’t inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night.

Why is there evil in the world? Because sometimes you just wanna fuckin have it, and you don’t care ...

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Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night.

Why is there evil in the world? Because sometimes you just wanna fuckin have it, and you don’t care ...

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I am the spirit that negates.And rightly so, for all that comes to beDeserves to perish wretchedly;'...

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Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery i...

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John AdamsFamiliar Letters Of John Adams And His Wife Abigail Adams During The Revolution: With A Memoir Of Mrs. Adams

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of ta...

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If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thi...

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And I told him that I believed in God because I had seen His opposite. I had seen all that He was no...

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No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...

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If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and ...

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Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.

After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope...

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No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...

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Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer...

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Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are ...

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You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corru...

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It has always seemed to me that there are two types of people in this world: those rendered impotent...

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After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.

Shall that be shut to man, which to the beast Is open? or will God incense his ire For such a petty ...

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...So little knowsAny but God alone to value rightThe good before him but perverts best thingsTo wor...

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The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage...

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