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I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.
Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.
What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
I think' she said, choosing her words with care, ; that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil.
The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.
I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
You can laugh at my behavior that will never bother me, say the devil is my savior, but I don't pay no heed.
I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit.
Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.
Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.
Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.
The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.
False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.
Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.
Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another.
Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
There's a real sense - that we have to get past on the left - that every person who voted for Trump is evil.
You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.
I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.
We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.
Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?
Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.
Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.
The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.
The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.
Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.
What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.
Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.