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• An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.

  Sivananda

  Men, Evil, Quality

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• Power is not happiness.

  William Godwin

  Evil

  William Godwin (1796). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.185

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• I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Evil, Chimera

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• The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Evil, Simplicity

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• Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Stealing, Consistent

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.17

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• Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

  Joseph Joubert

  Evil, Abuse, Foundation

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• Historically, means cannot be separated from ends.

  Harold Laski

  Mean, Evil, Ends

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• Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Rights, Evil, Inequality

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• Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Evil, Abuse

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• It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

  Benito Mussolini

  Evil, Affair, States

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• There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would lead you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.

  Jodi Picoult

  Life, Children, Believe

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

  Nelson DeMille

  Country, Cutting, Evil

  "Plum Island". Book by Nelson DeMille, www.bookreporter.com. April 1, 1997.

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• For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Eye, Heart, Fate

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.

  Confucius

  Wise, Men, Astrology

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• Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Essence, Evil, Dying

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• He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son.

  Saint Patrick

  Father, Son, Evil

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• Given - and this is the fundamental thing - that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere and repentant heart, the question for those who do not believe in God is to abide by their own conscience. There is sin, also for those who have no faith, in going against one's conscience. Listening to it and abiding by it means making up one's mind about what is good and evil.

  Pope Francis

  Integrity, Believe, Heart

  "Pope Francis tells atheists to abide by their own consciences". Interview with Scalfari, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2013.

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• One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Learning, School

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• But thou, through good and evil, praise and blame,
  Wilt not thou love me for myself alone?
  Yes, thou wilt love me with exceeding love,
  And I will tenfold all that love repay;
  Still smiling, though the tender may reprove,
  Still faithful, though the trusted may betray.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Life, Evil, Faithful

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Lines Written In August”

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• Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.

  Epicurus

  Believe, Evil, Enjoy Life

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures...In any true piece of art...the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section.

  Michael Chekhov

  Art, Opposites, Play

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• The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and evil. As he inflates his imagination he inflates his capacity for evil.

  John Cheever

  Destiny, Evil, Imagination

  "Going To The Tigers" by Robert Cohen, www.believermag.com. February 2010.

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• Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

  Lord Acton

  Lying, Character, Evil

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• Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before. Some day, I doubt not, we shall arrive at an understanding of the evolution of the aesthetic faculty; but all the understanding in the world will neither increase nor diminish the force of the intuition that this is beautiful and that is ugly.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beautiful, Men, Evil

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

  Philip Pullman

  Thinking, Ideas, Evil

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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