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

    Thomas Carlyle
    Evil
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    All evils are equal when they are extreme.

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

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

    Mae West
    Evil
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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
    Evil
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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
    Evil
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    Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

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

    Evil
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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
    Evil
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    Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

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

    W. H. Auden
    Evil
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    Evil spelled backward is live.

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

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

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

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

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales
    Evil
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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
    Evil

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    Famous Quotes About Evil at 10/15/2010 8:49 PM
    And now you see Princess, that Evil will always triumph because Good is dumb.
    - Dark Helmet, Spaceballs
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