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"I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether or not there's a force in the world that really wants to destroy us, from the inside out, individually and collectively."
"Do this research if we don't have a season -- watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game."
"There is often variations of evil on both sides of the war. What we have to decide is whether or not regime change is a good idea. It's what the neoconservatives have wanted. It's what the vast majority of those on the stage want."
". . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . ."
"I sing about what a holy fool I am, and that although moments in my life are so cruel and relationships can be so cruel I'm still in love with Judas. I still go back again to those evil things."
"Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so during the life of man. it is therefore here below that the just must prosper and the impious suffer."
"Power is neither good nor evil."
"Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan."
"Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach! Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it."
"Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards."
"We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space."
"Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else."
"What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong."
"Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves."
"War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface."
"Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan."
"Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil."
"In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil."
"Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering."
"There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness."
