"Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like."
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"Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose."
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"The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible."
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"Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country."
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"Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment."
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"Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US."
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"What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness."
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"Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation."
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"By doing good we become good."
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"The process of nature cannot be evil."
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"Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure."
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"The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism."
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"The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it."
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"Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not."
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"To some people the ego is evil. It gives you so much. It gives you everything you want. But it takes back too much in return. It gives you everything: money, riches, women, glamour, everything you want. But in return it takes back so much, and you're soulless. That's its goal. The ego's goal is to leave you soulless."
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"When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils."
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"Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery."
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"Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing."
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"Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad."
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"We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try."
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