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Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent. — Samuel Johnson

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

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life. — Jack Vance

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

A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. — Augustus Hare

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

Every man is an evil until he falls in love. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

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

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

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible. — Reinhold Niebuhr

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

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. — Gautama Buddha

The condemned man's voice is laced with dark promise as he continues. "Remember Father, evil is simply 'live' spelt backwards."

Hellbound — David McCaffrey

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

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it. — Baron De Montesquieu

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

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people. — William Penn

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

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

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. — Charles Darwin

No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing. — Michael Crichton

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

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

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

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

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history. — Ayn Rand

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse. — George Bernard Shaw

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man. — Khalil Gibran

Man is the cruelest animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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. — W. Somerset Maugham

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves. — Mahatma Gandhi

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself? — Samuel Johnson

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. — Jean De La Fontaine

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. — Abu Bakr

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

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

A man cannot do good before he is made good. — Martin Luther

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

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. — Mary Shelley

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

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [ ... ] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in. — William Joyce

To a good man nothing that happens is evil. — Plato

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good — Sophocles

If a man is cruel, he destroy himself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience! — James Fenimore Cooper

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

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

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. — Thomas Chalmers

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

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! — Pietro Aretino

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

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

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

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing. — Edmund Burke

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil. — Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils. — Snoop Dogg

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

hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. — Terry Pratchett

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. — Robert Southey

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? — Anthony Burgess

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

Find the evil in the castle ... But the only truly evil thing in this world is the man ruling it. — Sarah J. Maas

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

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. — George R R Martin

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

By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three. — Gautama Buddha

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

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

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. — Jeff Cooper

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him. — Arthur Conan Doyle

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

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect. — William Blake

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

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

They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance. — Kate Bush

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor. — Henry Ward Beecher