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“As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.”
“No doubt your sword is indeed a beautiful thing. It is a tribute to whoever forged it in bygone ages. There are very few such swords as this one left in the world, but remember, it is only a sword,...”
“You might not believe in the devil, but do you believe evil lurks in this world?”
“There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.”
“The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.”
“Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.”
“All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.”
“Shortly after we were in bed I began my story, but made it so absurd, so long, and so tiresome, that, as my intention was, I sent her to sleep, and should have gone to sleep myself - but dark plots...”
“The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.”
“Jan could not recall ever seeing a creature more beautiful, though there nagged somewhere at the back of his mind the notion that she ought to have seemed hideous. Why? For she was pure, admirably ...”
“what? shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil?”
“A hanging, though, was something different. I got to thinking. We hadnt never been to nothing just to have a good time. A hanging was special and we was all getting to go.”
“One of the biggest difficulties in our contemporary society is that we try to locate the evil in somebody else and then we try to get rid of him. The police are pigs or the students are worthless, ...”
“We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We feel an even deeper pleasure letting everyone know of this fact. This...”
“- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps.- You do despise me! It's simply that I don't want to do good, I want to do evil, and it has nothing to do ...”
“The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever ...”
“Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of pr...”
“we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart”
“[She] sees. She knows. She understands. About evil, or whatever you care to name it. It comes. It's relentless. It doesn't care if you forgot it. It searches, and it finds you, and it arrives on yo...”
“This secular Leftist denial of human free will is one of the reasons the Left recoils from labeling evil as evil, and (correctly) ascribes talk about good and evil to the religious.”
