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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Thomas Carlyle

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Pierre Corneille

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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Walter Raleigh

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

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By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Evil
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Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade

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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Charles Baudelaire

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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Blaise Pascal

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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

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Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Simone Weil

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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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 spelled backward is live.

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Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Eric Butterworth

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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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17

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

George Bernard Shaw

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18

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Blaise Pascal

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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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20

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

Eric Hoffer

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21

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Emil Cioran

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22

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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24

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Baltasar Gracián y Morales

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25

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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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca the Younger

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No evil shall happen to the just.

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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

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29

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

John Berger

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30

Of two evils, choose neither.

Charles Spurgeon

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Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

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32

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

George Eliot

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33

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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34

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Overcome evil with good. -- St. Paul

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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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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Ernest Hemingway

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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

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The face of evil is always the face of total need.

William S. Burroughs

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

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42

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

Edmund Burke

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The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Aleister Crowley

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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Joseph Brodsky

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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Hannah Arendt

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46

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

William James

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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Gautama Buddha

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48

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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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There's small choice in rotten apples.

William Shakespeare

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Ben Jonson

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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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Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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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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We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

John Milton

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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Mae West

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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Max Lerner

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Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

John Donne

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Wickedness is its own punishment.

Francis Quarles

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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Evil spelled backward is live.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

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

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

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.

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.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

No evil shall happen to the just.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Overcome evil with good. -- St. Paul

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.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

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

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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.

We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Wickedness is its own punishment.