"There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil."
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"I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better."
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"The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society."
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"You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees."
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"Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral."
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"Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself."
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"When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!"
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"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail."
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"I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element."
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"The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much."
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"Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either."
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"Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having."
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"Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred."
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"'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes."
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"I'm no angel if that's what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down."
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"Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known."
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"We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent."
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"We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone."
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"Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity."
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