Lord Byron Quotes, Years Quotes, Evil Quotes

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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You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

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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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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

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Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

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Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

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Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

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Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.

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Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.

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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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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

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Evil on itself shall back recoil.

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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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About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Fall Quotes , Evil Quotes

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Evil Quotes , Infidelity Quotes

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Power Quotes , Evil Quotes

To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make it an unnatural result, devoided of lastind value.

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