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People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
The hero has to be an archetype; they have to be like a dream; they have to be perfect. The evil is closer to us.
You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
As God is continually being marginalized and dismissed in the culture, you will continue to see evil proliferate.
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.
There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.
The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
The Baron, unfortunately, turns it all the way up to eleven." "Seriously? Because, you know, that's one more evil
Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.
Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.
Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.
wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.
If shaytan has entered into your heart - evil will look beautiful to you and good will seem tiring and exhausting.
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
Flowers are almost perfect; their only flaw is that they are weak; they can't protect themselves against the evil!
The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks
I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!
Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.
There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?
There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.