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“Good necessitates evil.”
“They had set forth to rid their town of evil and had managed to rid it of pleasure as well.”
“Water is so friendly when you have it on your palms, but so evil when they have you on theirs.”
“Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?”
“They say curiosity killed the cat but I am unconcerned. I am smarter, though slightly less evil, than any cat.”
“An old man spoke to his grandson. "My child," he said. "Inside everyone there is a battle between two wolves. One is Evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, inferiority, lies, and ego. The other is Goo...”
“He conveyed a strange impression of being in safety, and completely secure. He had a courteous little manner with him, and smiled and nodded, as I pointed out the hills and the tall trees to him, a...”
“And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.”
“Well, no one says you can be happy about everything," I said. "I know I should be glad for you, Megan, but frankly I think you're crazy. And if Reverend Marshall is making you this way, I think he'...”
“When you stopped believing in God," he went on, "did you stop believing in good and evil?""No. But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came...”
“If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it.”
“What is worse than doing evil, is being evil (Ethics, p.67). To lie is wrong, but what is worse than the lie is the liar, for the liar contaminates everything he says, because everything he says is...”
“To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....”
“Walpurgis Night, when, according to the belief of millions of people, the devil was abroad - when the graves were opened and the dead came forth and walked. When all evil things of earth and air an...”
“["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of human beings come about in the same way. For hatred of...”
“If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.”
“But his mind saw nothing of all this. His mind was engaged in a warfare of the gods. His mind paced outwards over no-man's-land, over the fields of the slain, paced to the rhythm of the blood's red...”
“Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and say, there is so much evil in the world that ther...”
“For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know.”
“Speak of evil, and you summon it.”
