"I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil."
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"For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?"
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"Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues."
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"I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury."
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"Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen."
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"I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil."
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"Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted."
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"All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good."
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"I don't think that humans are, in our nature, we're evil or anything like that. But I do think there's a demon in our DNA, in our tribal subconscious that affects the way we work and we operate as a group."
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"Russian talk of political evil is as natural as eating."
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"You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation."
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"What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask."
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"There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside."
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"A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time."
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"There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good."
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"Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect."
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"The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them."
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"It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil."
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"It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress."
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"The past is one evil less and one memory more."
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