"Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver."
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"Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest."
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"But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're going to come 100 percent, so if I dont be 100 percent pure-hearted, I'm going to lose. And thats why I'm losing."
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"Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good."
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"Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me."
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"All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil."
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"If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us."
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"We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us... But we are so lobed and valued that he was willing to due for us."
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"The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience."
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"There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer."
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"The way to wickedness is always through wickedness."
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"There is no evil without its compensation."
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"Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!"
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"Paul Ryan, he is the real evil genius of the Republican party. He with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky, snarly, simpering non-entity self, that's who I detest. Trump's just a moron, but Ryan is ugly and evil."
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"Disney became hated. It became one of the evil corporations. It used to be loved. They couldn't hold onto talent; they couldn't attract talent. Some of their products did badly. The Californialand project was a $5 billion waste of money. They couldn't make it work. The magic had gone, no pun intended."
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"Listen, I didn't ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents' DNA, I've got them, and I'm not ashamed to use 'em. Having a face Adonis would admire is one of the few advantages I've been given in life, and I use it to it's full potential whether it's for good or evil."
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"If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil."
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"When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence."
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"In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man."
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"There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is."
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