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“The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly ...”
“you are good when you strive to give of yourself.”
“If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass to find the good!”
“It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.”
“Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.”
“It isnt hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.”
“...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.”
“The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.”
“In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another.”
“The nose cant help catchin what the ears get sick with. Yessir, rock bands just sweat evil. Evils been around for a long time, ever since rocks started getting real hot and making a lot of noise as...”
“[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.”
“Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.”
“...That insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and ...”
“There is no absolute hate or evil. On the contrary hate or evil are always intimately blended with love and goodness. What causes more hate and evil is paradoxically what tends to be done in the na...”
“In the use of force, one simplifies the situation by assuming that the evil to be overcome is clear-cut, definite, and irreversible. Hence there remains but one thing: to eliminate it. Any dialogue...”
“Both [Satan and Melkor/Morgoth] are loud in their defiance, claiming that they would "rather rule in hell than serve in heaven". One might have admired these rebel angels if one believed their defi...”
“Plunder, ravage and kill; the secret works of the repugnant. Since the fall of man and brother killing brother, evil has owned the night.”
“Which comes first: Good or Evil? Usually evil. Good counters.”
“Evil itself is a dictator, whether its dressed up like a pompous little man with a moustache, or a bunch of faceless terrorists, or a fundamentalist state. Thats what the devil is, you know. And it...”
“You've been marked and labeled in the spiritual world just by virtue of your birth. If you claim the family name of Christian, you are being hunted to be destroyed.”