"There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming."
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"I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west."
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"There are moments when I think, Everyone is evil!"
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"The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom."
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"While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim."
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"... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist."
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"It's like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light glows on the monstrous camera."
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"Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force."
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"the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun."
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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation."
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"There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own."
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"It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property."
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"The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also."
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"Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit."
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"These are the evils which result from gossiping habits."
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"An evil life is a kind of death."
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"He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil."
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"Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now."
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"Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind."
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"Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race."
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