"Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people."
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"Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
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"There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction."
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"Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil."
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"Evil gains work their punishment."
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"To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved."
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"All human beings are commingled out of good and evil."
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"Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall."
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"In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil."
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"When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull."
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"You foul, lying, evil little cockroach!"
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"One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good."
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"A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty."
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"The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted."
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"I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any."
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"It's our responsibility to see to it that the good outweighs the evil and I am convinced beyond a doubt that today's Americans will do exactly that!"
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"So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse."
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"Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'"
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"Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth."
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"Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's."
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