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I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who wo...

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The criminals who, in the face of contumely, hatred or violence, have led the world to a higher stan...

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Evil is never abstract. It is always concrete, always particular and always vested in individuals. T...

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Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’...

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He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The v...

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He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection.

As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand fi...

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They caught up their horses and turned back. Nothing moved in that high wilderness save the wind. Th...

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He said that while one would like to say that God will punish those who do such things and that peop...

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That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.

Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is ...

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Do I look evil? I can't do evil. I can barely pull off dangerous.

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Dan AbnettDoctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By

We did an evil thing, father.""What do you think war is? We're men. Not boys swinging sticks at each...

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The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for ...

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Daniel WebsterThe Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster: Diplomatic Papers and Miscellaneous Letters

I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I’ve ever seen in the history of liter...

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Generalization is a natural human mental process, and many generalizations are true—in average. What...

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Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these a...

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Hate is the father of all evil.

There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to kee...

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There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn....

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Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the f...

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Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the f...

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Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its ...

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There's more to me than you see, another me down inside somewhere, full of hate, ready to hurt, cut,...

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Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

Evil never dies. It just changes faces.

We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminis...

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Dean KoontzLife Expectancy

Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.

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Dean KoontzOdd Apocalypse

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

When I was a child, I first thought that these shades might be malevolent spirits who fostered evil ...

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Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.

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Dean KoontzStrange Highways

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it ...

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Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance...the taproot...the ki...

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Dean KoontzYour Heart Belongs to Me

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than...

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Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economi...

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The bigger the government, the more the corruption. It's almost never mentioned, and it might be the...

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This secular Leftist denial of human free will is one of the reasons the Left recoils from labeling ...

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Dennis PragerStill the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divi...

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The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute f...

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Diana GabaldonWritten in My Own Heart's Blood

City of Wizards is normally quite a GOOD thing, since only Good WIZARDS seem able to live together. ...

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Diana Wynne JonesThe Tough Guide to Fantasyland

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could ...

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The world is not divided between Christ and the devil; it is completely the world of Christ, whether...

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What is worse than doing evil, is being evil” (Ethics, p.67). To lie is wrong, but what is worse tha...

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...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withs...

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Dietrich BonhoefferGod Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall...

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I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got t...

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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to g...

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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.

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E. M. ForsterA Passage to India

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing

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Edmund BurkeThe Works of the Right Honorable

The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.

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Edward AbbeyThe Monkey Wrench Gang

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

Sometimes I am asked if I know the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, b...

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Elie WieselThe Night Trilogy: Night

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.

It's wrong to anticipate evil.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever pra...

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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us...

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Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil...

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Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is share...

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In this view, man is an energy-convertingorganism who must exert his manipulative powers, who must d...

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When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnifi...

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F. Scott FitzgeraldThis Side of Paradise

I have a very simple morality: not to do good or evil to anyone. Not to do evil, because it seems on...

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We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to d...

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to d...

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to d...

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to d...

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities ...

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Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

I felt at one and the same time quite close, within reach of my hand, and yet an infinite distance a...

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The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, bu...

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Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love alway...

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State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!

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Friedrich NietzscheDaybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, t...

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Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil ...

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Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that incli...

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It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the e...

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Fulton J. SheenFulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book

The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there w...

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Fulton J. SheenFulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book

What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.

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Fulton J. SheenLife Is Worth Living

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in refer...

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Fulton J. SheenPhilosophy of Science