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Tag Name "Evil" (4260)

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
Voltaire
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You are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness.
Griffin Jay
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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
Voltaire
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You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
Rachel Bilson
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Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.
Andrea Barrett
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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.
Voltaire
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I have no more than twenty acres of ground, he replied, the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want.
Voltaire
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It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.
Veronica Roth
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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire
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Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.
Gautama Buddha
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Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.
Charles Kimball
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Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
Sholom Rokeach
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There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.
Friedrich Schiller
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And you, whiner, who wastes your time Dawdling over the remorseless earth, What evil, what unspeakable crime Have you made your life worth?
W. D. Snodgrass
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I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
Seneca the Younger
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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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Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
W. H. Auden
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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
Anatole France
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
Anatole France
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We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.
Anais Nin
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I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.
Anais Nin
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