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As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."
As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.
War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.
With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.
Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.
To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.
[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.
Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.
Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.
A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.
The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.
We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer a defeat.
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.
The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.
I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.
There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.
She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck.
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.
Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.
The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles.
The main problem I always have with multiplayer is that human beings are grabby, entitled, selfish, ugly, stupid, evil cockstoppers.
Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.
Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.
Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.
I get to play with great friends and a great crew, every day, blowing stuff up and saying evil lines. You can't complain about that.
Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
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.
When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.
No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.
Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.
There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.
Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.
It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.
The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.
Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.
Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.