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Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. — Henry Miller

Evil done in the name of good. Evil done in the name of evil. Which is worse? — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune. — Jean De La Bruyere

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils. — Plutarch

People who are crushed do not look behind them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. — Victor Hugo

Which comes first: Good or Evil? Usually evil. Good counters. — Steve Chapman

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral. — Ernest Hemingway,

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy. — Adam Smith

He had memorized the entire Qur'an and lectured on the nature of evil, which, like a shadow, cannot exist independently of the good silhouettes. — Anthony Marra

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

This was an evil choice. Which way should he choose? And if both led to terror and death, what good lay in choice? — J.R.R. Tolkien

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked. — Fanny Burney

We love that which we corrupt. — Kiana Davenport

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. — James F. Cooper

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume. — Charles Caleb Colton

For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature. — Marcus Aurelius

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. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil. — D.H. Lawrence

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering. — Roland Barthes

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity. — Victor Hugo

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint. — William James

Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand. — Bodie Thoene

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

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them. — Voltaire

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures
are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures. — Epicurus

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us. — Voltaire

From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit. — Edwin Percy Whipple

Evil is inevitable,' Reuben quoted, 'in the course of a creation which develops with time. — Rice Anne

But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom. — Cynthia Rylant

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. — Antonio Porchia

In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm. — Hannah Arendt

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach. — Thomas Paine

The sins we do, people behold with optics,
Which shew them ten times more than common vices,
And often multiply them. — John William Fletcher

All that which proceeds from man's independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man's dependence upon men is evil. — Ayn Rand

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives. — Charles Hermite

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which. — George R R Martin

There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. — Harry Blamires

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death. — Ernest Becker

intended to repel Evil, which are the constant Accompaniment to their Conversations with myself. — Diana Gabaldon

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends. — Jeremy Bentham

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything. — Ralph Fiennes

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life — Albert Schweitzer

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. — John Henry Newman

The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo Da Vinci

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other. — Thomas Jefferson

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army. — Vladimir Lenin

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

The fact is, we're looking for a very small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London. — Charles Clarke

Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope. — William Shakespeare

Jealousy is an evil which grows in the womb of ego and is nourished by selfishness and attachment. — Swami Rama

Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself. — Fakeer Ishavardas

We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others. — William Lloyd Garrison

This sacrifice, which saved his life, reminded him again that the evil of this world could be put to rout by the will of a single human being. — Andrei Makine

Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. — John Galt

I want to make my own discoveries ... ... .penetrate the evil which attracts me — Anais Nin

There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder. — Henry Miller

To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation. — George Washington

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth? — Anne Rice

The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either. — Amish Tripathi

There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude ... — Delarivier Manley

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

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure. — Luc De Clapiers

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil. — Edward Dahlberg

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness. — Aldous Huxley

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. — Seneca The Younger

Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good. — William George Jordan

The problem of evil ... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it? — William Temple

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise - liberty and coercion. — Frederic Bastiat

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil. — Samuel Johnson

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is. — Simone Weil

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

Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good. — William, Saroyan

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. — George Orwell

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil. — Arnold J. Toynbee

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

We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times. — Pope Pius X

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility. — Matthew Henry

For the good that I would: I do not, but the evil which I would not, I do. — Matthew J. Hefti

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil. — Maximilien Robespierre

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman. — Pythagoras

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

Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country. — George Washington

The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. — J. Edgar Hoover

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil. — Ayn Rand

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. — Plato

Sin begins in thought, which is the intimation of conscience. So, if the conscience holds sin, then its thoughts shall be evil. — Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall. — Stephen King

You speak evil of that which is fair beyond the reach of your thought, and only little wit can excuse you. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana

God's holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil. — David F. Wells

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits. — Ovid

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil. — Dan Simmons

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. — Saint Ambrose

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. — Baruch Spinoza