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• As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Truth, Believe, Evil People

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• Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind. Serve Bhangis, serve rogues, serve inferiors, remove faecal matter. Do not revenge, resist not evil, return good for evil, bear insult and injury. Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

  Sivananda

  Children, Giving Up, Revenge

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• The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder... Today we know that survivors of torture can be helped to regain their health and strength, and in helping them we take the weapon from their torturers. They sought the destruction of other human beings. We have proved that they have not succeeded.

  Inge Genefke

  Strength, Soul, Identity

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• No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Men, Good Man

  Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

  Anne Rice

  Reality, Literature, Goodness

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• To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

  Plato

  Wise, Becoming, Holy

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Race, Diversity, Shadow

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.1.

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• Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Family, Work, Roots

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

  Horace Mann

  Reality, Men, Wicked

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.215

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• If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Money, Men, Helping

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.7, editionNEXT.com

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• There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Human Nature, Propensity, Inherent

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1853). “Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter”, p.472

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• Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

  Christy Mathewson

  Sports, Baseball, Umpires

  Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.76, Penguin

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• I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Taoism, Spirit

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• An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

  Coretta Scott King

  Deeds, Death Penalty, Vengeance

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• Government is an unnecessary evil.

  Jeff Berwick

  Government, Unnecessary

  "Jeff Berwick: Systematic Market Crash to Occur on September 13th, 2015". Interview with Collin Kettell, www.kitco.com. June 2, 2015.

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• This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Deeds, Stills, Courses

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• Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

  Ernest Hemingway

  People, Dignity, Breeding

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Inspirational, Sorry, Apology

  Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.113, University of Illinois Press

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• Woman is the root of all evil.

  St. Jerome

  Roots

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• Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cold, Beats, Absolutes

  Address in Divinity College, americanliterature.com. July 15, 1838.

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• The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Individuality, Favour

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• The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Funny, Sarcastic, Atheist

  River Out of Eden ch. 4 (1995)

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• War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

  George Orwell

  War, Literature, Lesser Evil

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• The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

  Thomas Hardy

  Impossible, Framed, Resolution

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.120, e-artnow

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