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“Three kinds of people get talked about: The fascinating, the freaks and the nefarious.”
“A world compelled to good alone is as much a shrine to compulsion as a world compelled to evil only.The Twenty-first Voyage”
“There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.”
“There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.”
“The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.”
“If we don't harness their potential for good, their societies will continue to reap their capacity for evil.”
“The only thing necessary for evil to conquer is for us and those like us to do nothing.”
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.”
“Ubi boni, malum prosperat (Where good men are silent, evil prospers)”
“They’ve worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.”
“Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.”
“Evil is a double-edged sword, if you use it you'll end up cutting you”
“I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplati...”
“Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil.”
“What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.”
“Never throw mud. You may miss your mark but you must have dirty hands.”
“Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good.”
“Evil often triumphs but never conquers.”
“As sure as God is good so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.”
“No evil is honorable: but death is honorable therefore death is not evil.”