"The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will."
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"Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral."
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"If the gods do evil then they are not gods."
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"The gift of a bad man can bring no good."
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"Only a madman would give good for evil"
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"Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people"
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"So many lives I touch, so much anger."
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"How can I be so evil? It ain't easy."
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"Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil."
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"Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another) and defending what is good. Heroes do not want power over others."
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"I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it."
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"On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the opposites. . . . It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit's task and charge to reconcile and reunite the opposites in the human individual through a special development of the human soul."
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"The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy."
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"The woman in you is the worry in me."
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"The mouse had fallen in with evil cats."
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"There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive."
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"You know, when you go into the store and buy a box of laundry detergent, and the price has gone up - you know, 50 cents because of regulations....And everything is costing more money, and we are killing our people like this....It's the evil government that is putting all these regulations on us so that we can't survive."
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"Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain."
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"Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high."
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"When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil."
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