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Tag Name "Evil" (4013)

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Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.
Rollo May
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Evil counsel travels fast.
Sophocles
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Evil cannot be treated -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.
Bill O'Reilly
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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker
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Evil, as evil, can never be chosen and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.
Benjamin Franklin
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
Iris Murdoch
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Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.
Nora Roberts
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Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
John Bradshaw
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. Auden
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evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.
John Carpenter
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman
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Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
William Butler Yeats
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Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.
Terry Eagleton
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Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.
Herman Melville
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Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.
Terry Eagleton
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Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.
Frank Norris
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Evil company is always to be shunned because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of perseverance), and destruction of everything. (Narada Bhakti Sutra)
Swami Vivekananda
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Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.
Brent Weeks
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Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.
Franz Kafka
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Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.
Lars von Trier
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