"No evil is without its compensation."
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"The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves."
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"They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be easily achieved. ... if this optimism appears too superficial, they will try to create a kind of anti-God: the U.S.S.R. That is Evil, and it only needs to be annihilated to re-establish the reign of Good."
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"I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive."
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"Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able."
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"Although your past has been painful devastating or cruel God has promised to be a Restorer and a Redeemer. He says He will "give us gladness in proportion to our former misery " and "replace the evil years with good"."
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"And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand that the more than 112 million abortions performed in America in 1980 amount to a great moral evil, an assault on the sacredness of human life."
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"The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world."
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"What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for name and fame and covers his efforts to obtain them with the enamel of charity and good works. He is working for himself under the pretext of working for others. Every so-called charity is an encouragement of the very evil it claims to operate against."
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"Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter."
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"The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face."
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"The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody."
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"Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good."
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"In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil."
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"When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil."
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"And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate."
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"Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks."
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"Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?"
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"Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities."
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"To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas."
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