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"History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon-See No evil, Hear No evil and evil." »Robert Joseph Bob Dole
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"Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love." »The Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, Letter, 1917
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"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" »Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" »Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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"To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil." »Prophet Mohammed
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"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." »Jimmy Carter
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"No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from." »George Eliot, internet
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"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible." »Thomas Hardy
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"No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." »Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"evil is relative…You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger." »Glen Cook, The Black Company
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"He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs." »J. Hawes
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"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." »Plato
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"evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty." »Simone Weil
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"evil to him who evil thinks.
(Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)" »King Edward the Third, Motto of the order of the Garter
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"Each child is an evil. Each adult is an self-control or be controlled evil." »Woody Haldrugold
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"A man ought not to return evil for evil, as many think, since at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbour.*" »Plato
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"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles." »Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
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"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles." »Ayn Rand
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"Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles." »Marquis de Sade
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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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"The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career." »Albert Einstein
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"Thinking evil is making evil." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good so far as we do evil or good, we are human and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing at least we exist." »T. S. Eliot
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"We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness." »R. W. Dale
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"Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster." »Hesiod
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"Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster." »Hesiod
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"evil to him who evil thinks." »King Edward the Third
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"Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death." »Thomas Carlyle
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