"Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty."
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"He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips."
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"Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees."
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"The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized."
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"It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government."
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"Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil."
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"Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."
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"It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good"
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"A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse."
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"I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it."
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"It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God."
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"A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought."
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"I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself."
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"Religion taught us to return good for evil."
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"The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil."
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"Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others."
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"Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them."
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"He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles."
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"Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay."
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"Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there."
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