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• As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.

  Tad Williams

  Speak No Evil, Would Be, Want

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• Twenty-six years ago the highest court in this land did an incredible thing. They issued a Supreme Court decision that really boils down to one simple and profoundly evil idea: They said that our unborn children have no rights that the rest of us are bound to respect. And when they made that decision they unleashed on America an unbelievable event that has undermined who we are and what we believe.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Believe, Simple

  "Bauer officially jumps into 2000 race". www.cnn.com. April 21, 1999.

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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 notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.

  Glen Cook

  Men, Two, People

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• There are evils worse than death.

  James F. Cooper

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• The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Heart, Air

  Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

  Millard Fillmore

  Giving, Slavery, Constitution

  Millard Fillmore (1970). “Millard Fillmore Papers”

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• We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man's presumption made of man in Auschwitz

  Primo Levi

  Men, Skins, Together

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.

  Hermann Broch

  Art, Negative, Doe

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• How funny is it that so many professors labeled Tea Partiers as terrorists, while kissing the asses of real, bona fide terrorists? It's not funny, really. But it's the result of a simple equation: One is cool, and the other isn't. Own a gun and keep it by your bed in your remote farmhouse? You're a redneck. Purchase guns that end up killing a judge? Priceless. As long as you cling to cool, progressive beliefs that deem America evil, whatever you do is cool. And if you do it under a big fuzzy 'fro? Even cooler. Hell, if you 'fro is big enough, you could nuke an orphanage and still get tenure.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Real, Kissing, Redneck

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.72, Crown Forum

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• God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

  Mary Daly

  Ignorance, Men, God's Plan

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.49, Beacon Press

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• I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Done, Want, Way

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• During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'

  Al Franken

  President, Bob, Administration

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• I saw satan laughing with delight
  The day the music died.

  Don McLean

  Laughing, Delight, Saws

  Song: Miss American Pie, Album: American Pie

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• We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Weakness, Wickedness, Changed

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• We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

  Herbert Spencer

  Soul, Forget, Goodness

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.3

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• I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Political, Social, Found

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• I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.

  Steven Weinberg

  Hands, Might, Needs

  Steven Weinberg (2001). “Facing Up”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Squares, Roots, Irrationality

  "Irrationality is the Square Root of All Evil". Scientific American, 249 (3), September 1983.

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• Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

  Donald Knuth

  Science, Roots, Debugging

  Donald Ervin Knuth (1986). “TEX: The Program”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

  Donald Knuth

  Opportunity, Roots, Debugging

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• The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

  Larry Wall

  Greater Good, Greater

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• The Vimalakirti Sutra states that, when one seeks the Buddhas' emancipation in the minds of ordinary beings, one finds that ordinary beings are the entities of enlightenment, and that the sufferings of birth and death are nirvana. It also states that, if the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds.

  Nichiren

  Lying, Mirrors, Jewels

  "The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin".

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• The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A strong character does not resist evil, but uses their strength in building the good. They know that when the light is made strong, the darkness will disappear of itself.

  Christian D. Larson

  Strong, Character, Light

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• It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Way, Weakness, Depravity

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• I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Feelings, Done, Want

  Ruth St. Denis (1969). “Ruth St. Denis, an unfinished life: an autobiography”, [Dance Horizons, 1969

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