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We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try.

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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Evil Quotes , Pleasure Quotes

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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Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

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This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Evil Quotes , Redemption Quotes

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

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Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.

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If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

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The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Book Quotes , Evil Quotes

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Evil Quotes , Endurance Quotes

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Evil Quotes , Roaming Quotes

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

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We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.

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Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Evil Quotes

Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Evil Quotes

Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.

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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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Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred.

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Evil Quotes