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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
-Albert Schweitzer
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
-Haile Selassie
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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The sun also shines on the wicked.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. Merchant Of Venice
-William Shakespeare
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The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.
-William Shakespeare
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There's small choice in rotten apples.
-William Shakespeare
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
-William Shakespeare
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But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,
And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil.
-William Shakespeare
King Richard III
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
-George Bernard Shaw
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
-Logan Pearsall Smith
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It is safest to be moderately base -- to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
-Sydney Smith
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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.
-Socrates
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
-Socrates
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If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
-Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Gulag Archipelago
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To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.
-Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
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The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
The Treasury of David
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Of two evils, choose neither.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
-George Steiner
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The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
-Francis Thompson
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The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
-A. W. Tozer
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Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-Source Unknown
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Evil spelled backward is live.
-Source Unknown
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Books about Evil
