"Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children."
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"One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it."
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"Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them."
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"Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness."
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"If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable."
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"Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him."
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"Evil report carries further than any applause."
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"If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction."
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"No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again."
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"Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil."
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"Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed."
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"For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom."
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"But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed."
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"It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The New Republic and you'll see there the radical evil that's associated with Islam, the Arabs as having a depraved culture, and so forth. These are impossible generalizations to make in the United States about any other religious or ethnic group."
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"I'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve."
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"Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed."
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"Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another."
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"Evil companions bring more hurt than profit."
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"Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words."
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"Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead.""
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