Charles Dickens Quotes, Evil Quotes, Lazy Quotes

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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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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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Evil Quotes , Ready Quotes

In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.

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For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Sea Quotes , Evil Quotes

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

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I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

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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

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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The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.

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Tags : A. V. Dicey Quotes , Sight Quotes , Evil Quotes

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!

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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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When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , People Quotes , Evil Quotes

MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Evil Quotes

You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Evil Quotes , House Quotes

If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

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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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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Determination Quotes , Evil Quotes

The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.

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Return good for good; return evil with justice.

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