Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Government Quotes, Evil Quotes

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

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I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

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Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

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And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

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But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

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Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

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How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

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Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

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Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Evil Quotes

There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.

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To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

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I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

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Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Evil Quotes , Forgiving Quotes

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

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