3,115 Quotes About Evil

  • Author Ayn Rand
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    In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

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  • Author Sam Keen
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    The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.

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  • Author Octave Mirbeau
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    While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.

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