"Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, leave you toothless."
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"We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice."
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"Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil."
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"We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil."
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"Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words."
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"It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself."
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"Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack."
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"Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot."
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"It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil."
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"By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three."
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"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
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"I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my art; I associate with Him without fear, I have always recognized and understood Him, and I have no fear for my music,-it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must become free from all the miseries that the others drag with them."
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"Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them."
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"For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil."
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"Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you"
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"There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil."
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"If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God."
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"Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men."
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"If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days."
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"We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live."
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