Saint Augustine Quotes, Evil Quotes, Doubt Quotes

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Evil Quotes , Forgiving Quotes

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

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This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

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Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

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We've come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed.

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When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

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So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

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Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

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When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.

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But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

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The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Evil Quotes , Whiplash Quotes

The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

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I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. "Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!"

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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

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There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

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Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.

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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

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There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

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