Walt Whitman Quotes, Law Quotes, Evil Quotes

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

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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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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?

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In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Evil Quotes , Body Quotes

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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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

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Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

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The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.

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Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

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It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

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The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

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It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

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Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Evil Quotes , Needs Quotes

A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

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