3,115 Quotes About Evil
- Author Elizabeth Goudge
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For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it was a patterned web and one could see the silver pattern when the sun shone upon it. It seemed much frailer than the dark tangle, that had a hideous strength, but it might not be so always, not in the final reckoning.
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- Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions...Ideology—that is what gives the evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.
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- Author Lawrence Durrell
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I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?
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- Author Shannon L. Alder
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People that don't know what they are worth will always see their capture's wings, but never their tail.
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- Author Ahmed Mostafa
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Thank you for undusting my true colors; or color: black... Oh, how I missed the darkness!
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- Author D.J. MacHale
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Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power of Halla. How sweet the moment of revelation will be, when he learns that he handed it to me." -SD the Pilgrims of Rayne
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- Author Henry Miller
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One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless.
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- Author Reinhold Niebuhr
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Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
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- Author Theodor W. Adorno
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Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.
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