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• Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

  Walter Lang

  People, World, Good God

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• To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.

  Pentti Linkola

  Movement, Green, Serious

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• That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Government

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• The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Motivation, Law, Greed

  Alister E. McGrath (2012). “Reformation Thought: An Introduction”, p.217, John Wiley & Sons

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• He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Fall, Example, Contrary

  "Storia d' Italia". Book by Francesco Guicciardini, 1561.

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• A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

  Carolyn Wells

  Criticism, Necessary Evil, Critics

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• You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Disaster, Commencement, Rejoice

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.15

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• It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we were more willing to accept each other's depravity we'd be more united, we'd be more honest. If you hide two things from me, I'll assume you're hiding a million. And I'll keep you at a distance. I'm not afraid of the evil in you. It's in me too.

  Donald Miller

  Distance, Two, People

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• J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Past, Men, Good Man

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• Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.

  Randy Alcorn

  Jesus, Miracle, Redemption

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.89, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something.

  Zach Braff

  Men, Israel, America

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• A lot of people say colonialism was 'evil' or whatever, but what have they really done with Africa since we gave it back to them? I don't think it should be considered 'racist' to admit maybe ending apartheid did more harm than good in South Africa.

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, People, Colonialism

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• Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular eyes, frosty gold, with an expression of intense, predatory madness in them. The crooked arms, with their fringes of sharp teeth, would be raised in mock supplication to the insect world, so humble, so fervent, trembling slightly when a butterfly flew too close.

  Gerald Durrell

  Humble, Butterfly, Eye

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• In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.

  Emil Fackenheim

  Men, Tragedy, Sake

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• The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Faith, Wisdom, Religious

  "Arpilei Tohar" by Abraham Isaac Kook, (p. 2), 1914.

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• As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized.

  Jason Stearns

  Regimes, Interest, Greater Good

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• If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Trying, Relax

  "Thus Spake Stallman". Slashdot Interview, news.slashdot.org. May 1, 2000.

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• Do not be angry with people who are weak. That is the mark of a coward. There are plenty of things to be angry about in the world--people wielding political or religious authority who have been blinded by money, for example! That is the kind of evil young people should direct their rage at. Be angry about that, and you'll never lose your temper about trifling matters.

  Josei Toda

  Religious, People, Political

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• We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

  Tzvetan Todorov

  Struggle, Fighting, Names

  "Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century". Book by Tzvetan Todorov, 2003.

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• For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something of which we are all quite capable.

  Tzvetan Todorov

  People, Majority, Indifferent

  "Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century". Book by Tzvetan Todorov, 2003.

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• In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Sometimes, Innocent, Appearance

  "Rutherford B. Hayes, and His America". Book by Harry Barnard, p. 481, 1954.

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• The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. There is evil and disorder in the world, because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Peace, Self

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than the center of His will? Did not He assure me by His very presence that His thoughts toward us are good, and not evil? Death to my own plans and desires was almost deliriously delightful. Everything was laid at His nail-scarred feet, life or death, health or illness, appreciation by others or misunderstanding, success or failure as measured by human standards. Only He himself mattered.

  V. Raymond Edman

  Appreciation, Feet, Choices

  "They Found the Secret: Twenty Transformed Lives that Reveal a Touch of Eternity".

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• Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

  Saint Augustine

  Coping, Difficulty, Exes

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• Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.

  Isocrates

  Adversity, Grieving, Life Is

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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