T. S. Eliot Quotes, Evil Quotes, Wickedness Quotes

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'

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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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Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

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

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The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

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And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

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The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

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Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .

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It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

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There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

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... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

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For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

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We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

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But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

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

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Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.

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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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