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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. — Daniel Defoe

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world. — Abba Eban

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace
to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

A good man produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil man pro- duces evil things from his storeroom of evil. Matthew 12:35 — Beth Moore

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can. — Harold S. Kushner

Imagine how extraordinary the world would be if everyone believed the only man capable of evil ... is himself. — Ivy Yuelle

The power is neither evil not good; it simply exists. It is up to the mind of man to put it to use. — Terry Goodkind

His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines. — Joseph Conrad

I'm not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It's a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil. — Jonathan Maberry

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this. — Confucius

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. — Ayn Rand

There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

In the sense of Lewis, I am a moderately 'good man'".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

the LORD God said: 'Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; — Westminster Leningrad Codex

The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body. — Maimonides

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. — Ayn Rand

The gift of a bad man can bring no good. — Euripides

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good. — John Stuart Mill

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good. — Criss Jami

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. — Ernest Becker

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

This is one of the most ancient, most evil books of black magick known to man."
"Where did you get it?"
"eBay. — Robin Reed

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor. — Thomas Carlyle

Evil is an adjective. It is an adjective used to describe those actions of man (and their effects) that are contrary to the nature of God. — N.D. Wilson

In the hearts of men lies both good and evil. The two coexist. Some men become good, and others become evil. It is the way of this world.
-Kikyo — Rumiko Takahashi

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man. — Billy Graham

A man who embraces the voice of evil when it whispers in his ear is no less evil than the whisperer. — Orson Scott Card

When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good. — Khuswant Singh

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. — Wilfred Bion

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital. — Theodore Roosevelt

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The anti-mind is the anti-life. — Ayn Rand

The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself — Sophocles

The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind. — John Milton

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now. — Brenna Yovanoff

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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. — Theodore Roosevelt

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more. — Nicolas Chamfort

It was not the mask I was afraid of ... but of what lay behind the mask. The eternal source of all fear, all horror, all real evil, man himself — John Fowles

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. — Samuel Johnson

One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can. — William Wordsworth

It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil. — Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion. — C.S. Lewis

The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good. — Martin Luther

All the habits of Man are evil. — George Orwell

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side, — Kurt Vonnegut

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. — Ayn Rand

Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man. — Philo

Man enters into the ethical world through fear and not through love. - Paul Ricoeur, The Symbolism of Evil. — Tami Hoag

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil. — Samuel Johnson

The divinization of Man, when one abhors the order of the world as essentially evil, is a risky and self-contradictory venture. — Czeslaw Milosz

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan. — Mahatma Gandhi

His voice was low, and I think he would've been hot if he weren't radiating that air of I Am Super Evil
No, Really
And Not In The Sexy Way. — Rachel Hawkins

The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king. — Augustine Of Hippo

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be. — Henry Ward Beecher

As is a rock in the hand of one with evil intentions. It is not the rock that is the problem, but the heart of man. — Donita K. Paul

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace. — Bob Dylan

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good. — Leo Tolstoy

Secret of man's Mortality; Man has transformed from immortal to become a mere mortal being all because of our mental love for sex and evil. — Auliq Ice

Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil? — G.K. Chesterton

With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear. — Gautama Buddha

The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience. — Justin Alcala

Philosophically, war is an extension of man's struggle with sin and evil in the world. — Billy Graham

what is important is not that in every man are the roots of good and evil, but which of the two prevails. — Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not. — Will Rogers

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero. — Ayn Rand

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. — Mahatma Gandhi

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. — Hesiod

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. — Ralph Steadman

The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave. — Charles Spurgeon

Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions. — Imagawa Sadayo

You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

Hate will destroy you. Let love be the basis of which you live your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The devil prince of this world, but this world don't last so long for mortal man. — Jean Rhys

The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief. — George Orwell

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within. — David Gemmell

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity. — Xunzi

One man's god is another man's devil. — D.J. LeMarr

Come, let me know whether thou art a
creature of good or not.' And he replied: 'I am a man. — Chretien De Troyes

To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others. — Pearl S. Buck

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil? — John Milton

Plunder, ravage and kill; the secret works of the repugnant. Since the fall of man and brother killing brother, evil has owned the night. — Dennis F. Larsen

As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal — Bangambiki Habyarimana

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The Bible says a man's heart is desperately wicked, and who can know it? We're all capable of more evil than we realize. — Colleen Coble

Mourning the old glad days before they knew
What evil things the heart of man could dream, and dreaming do. — Oscar Wilde

It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his dignity. — Simone Veil

An evil man without vices was the most dangerous of all. — Anand Neelakantan

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good. — Pliny The Elder

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. — James Woods

17 A man of c quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated. 18 The simple inherit folly, — Anonymous

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. — Karl Marx

This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. — Aleister Crowley

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property. — Thomas Paine

The mind is the mine of man, wherein he digs out good or evil. — Ogwo David Emenike

Every morning most of the people wake up alive than dead, so I do have a faith there is still some goodness left in the man. — Amit Kalantri

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. — Theodore Roosevelt