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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral 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
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
Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil
— Dennis Prager
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil,
— Kimberly McCreight
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 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
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
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, loveunconditionally.'
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
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
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
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
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
