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Jane Austen Novelist
Evil

"Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm."

Mind Character Evil
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Jane Austen Novelist
Evil

"Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil."

Men Hate Evil
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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
Evil

"Studying chimps, I came to the conclusion that being evil is something that only humans are capable of. A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out. The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks."

Way Evil Nails
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher, Writer, Composer
Evil

"Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists."

Heart Evil Be Good
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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
Evil

"To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all."

Evil Values Be Good
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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
Evil

"God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man."

Men Evil Miracle
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Jeremiah Burroughs Puritan Minister, Author
Evil

"Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!"

Men Evil Affliction
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
Evil

"Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness."

Evil Struggle Loneliness
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Joe Hill Labor Activist, Songwriter
Evil

"It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant."

Evil Exercise Philosophical
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Evil

"The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen."

Evil Enemy Rain
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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
Evil

"Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily wish that every Constitutional measure may be adopted for the preservation of it."

Evil Slavery Territory
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