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Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you. — E.A. Bucchianeri

We can't protect our children from every evil in the world, but what we can do is protect them from a specific group of people. — Krista Ritchie

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism ... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness. — Rudolf Steiner

All our dreams and hopes become as naught, and evil men are allowed to hang their lanterns on our tombstones. What greater folly is there? — James Lee Burke

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

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)! — Richard Baxter

The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil? — Amish Tripathi

This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana. — Jane Grigson

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

You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery,
Enters the devil murder. — John Webster

Being left alone - and I am being left alone - isn't quite as much what I wanted as I thought. Is this how people become evil? I don't want to be. — Jo Walton

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. — Calvin Coolidge

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God — Blaise Pascal

There is no good or evil here, it all depends on what side you're standing. Nor is it about wrong or right, it's about surviving." Triven — Jennifer Wilson

I don't care about what is good and what is evil, I care about what is true. — Richard Dawkins

Love is above wisdom, just as the Virgin is above the snake. For her everything is inspiration. She doesn't bother judging what is good and what evil. — Paulo Coelho

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them. — Voltaire

What fools men are, and what an evil thing is war. — Wally Lamb

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil. — Bjornstjerne Bjornson

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil. — Henri Nouwen

Evil, then consists essentially in the choice of what is lower in preference to what is higher. — Athanasius Of Alexandria

I won't lie to you and make you believe what's evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way ... the RIGHT way. — Phil Anselmo

Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots. — Eleanor Farjeon

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good. — Michael Bassey Johnson

No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil. — Tsugumi Ohba

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? — Kahlil Gibran

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

That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God. — Ann Voskamp

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Some see an innocent victim. Others will see evil incarnate getting exactly what's deserved. — Emily Thorne

We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil. — M.F. Moonzajer

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short. — Francesco Guicciardini

Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil.
Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie. — Patti Roberts

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value. — Konrad Lorenz

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible! — William Shakespeare

It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is." The — Paulo Coelho

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy. — Alice Walker

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good - the atavism of an older ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Without the voice, hands, and feet of a human being, an evil spirit is limited in what it can accomplish. — Perry Stone

What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood. — Benito Mussolini

I have no idea what to say to him. "The Latin Club is totally evil," I blurt.
"The Latin Club?"
I can understand why he's confused. — Holly Black

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying? — Jim Butcher

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to
moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written
in it? — Richard Dawkins

What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us. — Frederick Lenz

All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil. — William Cowper

Let's take it as a "A" and "B" player. What if "A" decide to kill "B", "A" think that "B" is a evil guy... But "B" think that "A" is Evil so.... — Deyth Banger

Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations. — Bentley Little

WHAT IS GREATER THAN GOD, MORE EVIL THAN THE DEVIL? THE POOR HAVE IT. THE RICH NEED IT. AND IF YOU EAT IT, YOU WILL DIE. — Ernie Lindsey

A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom — Jo Nesbo

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil — Dennis Prager

What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil. — Fulton J. Sheen

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil, — Kimberly McCreight

For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do. — Ed Sheeran

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. — Euripides

What's undeniable is that monotheists have a hard time dealing with the Problem of Evil. — Yuval Noah Harari

Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

That is exactly what I learned. That evil can be so ordinary. — Tess Gerritsen

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine. — Arthur Schopenhauer

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. — Henry Ford

What you're calling evil, is part of human nature. — Nikolas Schreck

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. — Antonio Porchia

Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

What then is good? The knowledge of things. What is evil? The lack of knowledge of things. — Seneca.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. — Alice Walker

There are no honorable causes. There is no good or evil. Evil is only what we call those who oppose us. — Michael Sullivan

There is no evil, Makin," I said. "There's the love of things, power, comfort, sex, and there's what men are willing to do to satisfy those lusts. — Mark Lawrence

In order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear. — Dennis Hopper

Find good in what the world says is evil. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

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

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true. — Richard Dawkins

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Flee all that's evil, do all that's good, seek what is true, purse only peace, love
unconditionally.'
Warden's Oath — Megan Dent Nagle

No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent. — Paulo Coelho

If you want to ask how evil begins, just look to basic human nature. What's good gets bent, and bad is the inevitable result. — Anonymous

We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now. — Anne Bishop

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

Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive. — Melody Beattie

You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corrupted by what has been done in its name. — John Connolly

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two. — Robert Kazinsky

What saith Antisthenes? Hast thou never heard? - It is a kingly thing, O Cyrus, to do well and to be evil spoken of. — Epictetus

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it. — Michel De Montaigne

We ... sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough. — Scott Hahn

What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good. — Joseph Brodsky

Evil is evil, and no good comes of calling it by any other name. — Glenn Beck

What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us. — Amish Tripathi

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil, ... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not. — Laurell K. Hamilton

But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else. — Susan Sontag

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. — Abu Bakr

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. — Philip Sidney

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason. — Barack Obama