Alexander Pope Quotes, Evil Quotes, Pleasure Quotes

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

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Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

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Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

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The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , War Quotes , Evil Quotes

Everybody wants to make some money, but they really love what they do. You got others who are just "money, money, money," and fast life and women and everything. They go a whole other route. That's a fight of good vs. evil. A balance. It seems that more of these stations are pushing a negative side instead of keeping a balance, and to me, that's a conspiracy that's going on all over the planet.

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A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

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We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

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Evil is whatever distracts.

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Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

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

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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Evil Quotes , Ends Quotes

Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.

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Tags : Akhenaton Quotes , Pride Quotes , Evil Quotes

Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

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Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

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The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

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Some call this civil war; others call it emergency -- I call it pure evil.

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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

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