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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. -
Eric Hoffer
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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. -
Ernest Hemingway
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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. -
Benjamin Haydon
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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it. -
Baltasar Gracian
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But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart! -
Thomas Hood
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Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? 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. -
Mahatma Gandhi
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Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s. -
Desiderius Erasmus
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual. -
William James
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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good. -
George Eliot
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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
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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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They that know no evil will suspect none. -
Ben Jonson
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. -
Martin Luther King Jr
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It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good. -
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. -
D H Lawrence
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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. -
Joseph De Maistre
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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. -
Joseph De Maistre
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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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