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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered.
Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing.
whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person.
Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.
If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.
Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.
I just love strong female characters in general, not necessarily because, 'She's evil' or 'Oh, because she's good.'
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
Most evil characters, if they're not psychopathic, they become that way because they believe in what they're doing.
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.
There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.
In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.
God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.
It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.
We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.
Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.
Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.
Hate cannot be fought with hate. Evil cannot be conquered by darkness. Only love has the power to conquer them both.
That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.
We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.
The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from it.
Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.
We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ’s death and resurrection.
Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong.
I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. "Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!"
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.
It is only those who feel disconnected and seperated from the Oneness of All That Is that can ever commit evil deeds.
Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.
Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.