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If you help manufacture an enemy that's really evil, you can point to the fact that it's really evil, and say, "Hey, it's really evil."
We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.
It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils. [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.
Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.
War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.
We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.
The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.
Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name.
Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.
Evil isn't prejudiced. It doesn't care what you look like; it just wants a place to rest. It's up to you whether you give it that place.
I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.
Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another. That's what the Mafia does.
A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.
Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.
I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
In contrast to how my father treated me, I won't hit him, I won't call him evil, I'll give him affection, and I'll pay attention to him.
Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.
There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.
The Million Dollar Man thought he could buy anybody or anything and that was the essence of the character. About as evil as you can get!
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
She's just a devil woman With evil on her mind Beware the devil woman She's gonna get you She's just a devil woman With evil on her mind
The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.
As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.
Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.
Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil
Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His Wrath stops us from evil.
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.