There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.

I detest audiences. Not in their individual components but en masse... I think they are a force of evil.

Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought....But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.

The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.

I think if you're looking for a pure expression of evil, torture is pretty - is a pretty good candidate.

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride.

It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.

Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It’s also the root of a lot of bad art.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.

The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation.

She gave me a false address, took off with my American Express, sunspot baby, sure had me way out guessed.

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