True Evil Quotes

• Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Fear, Real, Grateful

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• Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

  Euripides

  Faults, Bears, Burden

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Law, Insanity

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2441, GENERAL PRESS

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• It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Rejection, Atrocities, Cowardice

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• It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Crush, Girl, Running

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• I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Character, Men, Oreos

  Jonathan Maberry (2015). “The Joe Ledger Series, Books 1-3: Patient Zero, The Dragon Factory, The King of Plagues”, p.18, St. Martin's Griffin

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• You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it.

  Jean Ferris

  Hard Times, Self, Faces

  Jean Ferris (2016). “The Tales of Marigold Three Books in One!: Once Upon a Marigold, Twice Upon a Marigold, Thrice Upon a Marigold”, p.543, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.

  Walter Mosley

  Mice, Ifs, Truest

  Walter Mosley (2010). “A Red Death: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Si”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Lying, Two, Leaving

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• The world understands that our country could solve all conflicts with military solutions, but we won't because we have leaders and we have a moral responsibility but we have also have a political - we have a political leader who is scared and who is raised on the idea that American force is the true evil.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Country, Military, Responsibility

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

  Alexandre Dumas-fils

  Pride, Vanity, Despair

  Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.24, Penguin

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• Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

  Andre Maurois

  Time, White Hair, Games

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

  Dean Koontz

  Ideas, Literature, World

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• Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

  Alain de Botton

  Revenge, Intelligent, People

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2012

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• Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Real, Adversity, Heaven

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• Lord Manu had said it's not people who are evil. True evil exists beyond them. It attracts people. It causes confusion amongst its enemies. But Evil in itself is too big to be confined to to just a few.

  Amish Tripathi

  People, Confusion, Enemy

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• If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

  Moby

  World, Republican, Ifs

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• We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.

  Arno Gruen

  Mistake, Forgiving, Rebellion

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