“ The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts. ”
- Cesare Pavese- Copy
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“ All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. ”
- Euripides- Copy
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“ Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. ”
- Evelyn Underhill- Copy
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“ Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. ”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky- Copy
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“ A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ A scoundrel will forever be a scoundrel, no matter which coat he wears. ”
- Laura Moncur- Copy
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“ Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers. ”
- Leigh Hunt- Copy
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“ It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. ”
- Mary Renault- Copy
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“ Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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