T. S. Eliot Quotes, Evil Quotes, Wickedness Quotes

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

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Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

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Religion taught us to return good for evil.

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The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Evil Quotes , Lazy Quotes

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

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People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

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Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.

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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

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That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Evil Quotes , Promise Quotes

CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".

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We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

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

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

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The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

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I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise.

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Tags : Abolqasem Ferdowsi Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

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Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

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To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

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The greatest evil is physical pain.

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