"We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it."
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"You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride."
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"Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement."
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"For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna, for it comes as an open gate to heaven. But if you do not participate in this battle against evil, you will incur sin, violating your dharma and your honor."
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"[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil."
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"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man."
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"I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman."
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"He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order."
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"This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness."
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"You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness."
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"We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil."
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"To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."
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"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."
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"Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that."
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"The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good."
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"Active Evil is better than Passive Good."
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"It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes."
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"An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness."
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"Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart."
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"There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism."
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