Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Law Quotes, Evil Quotes

Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

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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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There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

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You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

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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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Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

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Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

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The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.

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Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

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The world is a dangerous place to live

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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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Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

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

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Power always brings with it responsibility.

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There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

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

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There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

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If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

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