"Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity."
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"What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves."
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"The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power."
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"Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic."
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"And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state."
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"The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil."
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"The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil."
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"The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death."
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"Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God."
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"If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether."
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"She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved."
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"Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God."
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"Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity."
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"Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil."
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"When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil."
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"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil."
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"Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil."
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"As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil."
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"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."
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"To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing."
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