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"I think with regards to solutions, there are solutions, and I think there is only one. we have said repeatedly to the government of the United States that we do not want anything but to forget us, that they do not consider us even for good or evil."
"What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?"
"Power belongs to the intelligence of evil. It's totally unreflective, like Donald Trump. It belongs there."
"Return good for good; return evil with justice."
"Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?"
"I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil."
"The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left."
"As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up."
"You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil."
"If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God"
"Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds. —Matthias"
"There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious."
"The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?"
"Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness."
"The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms."
"Generalities are intellectually necessary evils."
"If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake it in a dish. That's called dressing, and that's not evil - stuffing is, though."
"Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be."
"Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic."
"For good is simple, evil manifold."
