3,115 Quotes About Evil
- Author Philip Gourevitch
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The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.
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- Author Robert Jordan
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It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.
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- Author Amish Tripathi
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What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.
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- Author David Gemmell
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There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.
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- Author Jennifer Brown
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I sat back and looked at it. It was ugly, dark, uncontrolled. Like a monster's face. Or maybe what I saw there was my own face. I couldn't quite tell. Was the face the image of something evil or the image of myself?"Both," Bea muttered, as if I'd spoken my question out loud. "Of course, it's both. But it shouldn't be. Goodness, no.
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- Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.
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- Author Donna Lynn Hope
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Three kinds of people get talked about: The fascinating, the freaks and the nefarious.
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- Author Fulton J. Sheen
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The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were no God. Before there can be a hole in a uniform, there must be a uniform; before there is death, there must be life; before there is error, there must be truth; before there is a crime, there must be liberty and law; before there is a war, there must be peace; before there is a devil, there must be a God, rebellion against whom made the devil.
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- Author Robert Jay Lifton
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In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.
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