"I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong"
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"Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular."
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"Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other."
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"Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of perseverance), and destruction of everything. (Narada Bhakti Sutra)"
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"Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected."
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"evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in."
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"Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried."
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"I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn't doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing."
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"Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters."
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"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."
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"Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?"
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"Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us."
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"The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated."
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"Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one."
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"The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair."
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"Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil."
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"If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not."
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"I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world."
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"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room."
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"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."
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