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Evil is a choice one makes, not a natural state of being. — Morgan Rhodes

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. — Rutherford B. Hayes

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

Not all private equity people are evil. Only some. — Paul Krugman

Power is not good or evil. It is what it is in the hands of the wielder. — Karen Marie Moning

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us. — Barack Obama

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

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. — Agatha Christie

There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be. — Richelle E. Goodrich

In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance. — Barry O'Farrell

I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars. — John Wycliffe

Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy. — Gen Urobuchi

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions. — Colin Wilson

Line in nature is not found;
Unit and universe are round;
In vain produced, all rays return;
Evil will bless, and ice will burn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration. — George R R Martin

Evil is not the opposite of love; evil
is the absence of love." by Robert W. Chapman. Author of A Certain Fall. — Robert W. Chapman

I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better. — Ruth St. Denis

Sorry to disappoint you. He's not evil. He's just a jerk. Sometimes it's a fine line. — Kami Garcia

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to. — George Soros

It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past. — William H. Hastie

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil. — Bhumibol Adulyadej

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit. — Anthony De Mello

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

Power is not happiness. — William Godwin

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

You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop. — Orson Scott Card

For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end. — J.R.R. Tolkien

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind. — Douglas Preston

Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry. — Ellie Rose McKee

James wrote, "Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am being tempted by God'; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone — Erwin W. Lutzer

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be. — Charles Van Doren

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. — Marcel Proust

It does not matter the evil you have experienced in your life, it is not God's plan for you to be unhappy — Sunday Adelaja

Look not at
the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow. — Thomas Hobbes

All of us here today understand this: We do not fight Islam, we fight against evil. — George W. Bush

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

We are not often against the evils, only because our enemies are against them. — M.F. Moonzajer

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. — Epictetus

Christians need to take a stand for what is right and not let evil go unchallenged. — Billy Graham

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. — Albert Einstein

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches. — Solon

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

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. — Ludwig Von Mises

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

I'm not a bloodhound, your lordships."
"Woof, woof," Cameron said, giving Fellows an evil grin. "Good dog. — Jennifer Ashley

Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it. — Timothy Keller

It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil. — Veronica Roth

Whoever does evil, have not seen God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta. — Albert Einstein

You win, you dirty evil butt-munch. I'll never not let you stay over again. Now let's go back to bed. — Ethan Day

Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part. — Carice Van Houten

I'm not somebody who believes in evil. — Karin Slaughter

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you. — Donald Tusk

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another? — Leo Tolstoy

Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should. — Terry Pratchett

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils. — Pliny The Elder

Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not. — Federico Chini

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. — John Ruskin

Yudhisthira replies that anger leads to evil and should not be indulged; better far is forbearance. (3.30) — John D. Smith

The fact that we can never have complete, perfect knowledge does not absolve us of the moral duty to judge and to take a stand against evil. — Ken Liu

When the "evil day" comes, we do not have to be dependent upon the circumstances around us, but rather on the resources of God! — Billy Graham

I do not believe in a mixture of good and evil in the world, or in myself. All is Good. — Emma Curtis Hopkins

I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally. — John Ortberg

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil. — Desmond Tutu

There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid. — Dean Koontz

I could not help feeling that they were evil things
mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.
— H.P. Lovecraft

Turning consciously from evil to faith did not always bring immediate awareness of how to please God — John Charles Pollock

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits. — Raheel Farooq

Sometimes evil win; not because good people are passive, but because evil play dirty while good play by the rules. — Jeanette Coron

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

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another. — Annette Bening

The Bible may be an arresting and
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right. — Penn Jillette

To see evil and not call it evil is evil. — John Hagee

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person. — Eric Hoffer

God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil. — Sholem Asch

The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you. — Barrows Dunham

Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things. — Cotton Mather

If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it. — Rebecca McKinsey

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You see it is not enough to merely evade evil. One must seek it out and destroy it. — Carol Goodman

The devil may not be interested in preventing you from knowing the undone job. What he may do is to make you think it's somebody's job and not yours. — Israelmore Ayivor

I'm not sure everybody agrees with me. I guess a lot of people don't. We are living in a time that's as evil as any time that there has ever been. — Donald Trump

Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others. — Frederick Lenz

Robin did not know why the announcement that Strike was off to meet Elin should lower her spirits. — Robert Galbraith

Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means. — Roy Baumeister

The energy of night was far different than that of the daylight - not inherently evil, but wilder, more dangerous, more unpredictable. — Jim Butcher

A thing doesn't have to be true, he said, for a person to get joy out of it. What it has to be is not evil or malicious. — Frank Delaney

I'm not evil, I'm just very creative — Anonymous

Mr. Gabriel is clearly insane, evil and dangerous and insane (and let's not forget, you know, a demon). — Michelle Knudsen

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait. — Giovanni Ruffini

We are all evil in some form or another, are we not? — Richard Ramirez

Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods — Irving Kristol

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. — Chester A. Arthur

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known. — Samuel Johnson

For the first time, he considered that utter indifference might inspire not inner peace but a limitless capacity for evil. — Dean Koontz

People must not vote thinking the evil will lose, but for valuing their existence — M.F. Moonzajer