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~ Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. ~

Henry Miller

~ There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right now. You are going to kill me the way he killed that woman.That is what's in store for all of us who have unselfish hearts. ~

Arthur Rimbaud

~ Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. ~

Sigmund Freud

~ Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils. ~

Titus Livy

~ Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil. ~

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~ Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to ~

Sophocles

~ How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on? ~

Tom Waits

~ There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great ~

Walter Lippmann

~ For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. ~

Dante Alighieri

~ Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion. ~

Steven Weinberg

~ A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. ~

Havelock Ellis

~ What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late. ~

Arthur Somers Roche

~ Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies ~

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

~ Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends. ~

John Ruskin

~ I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. ~

Euripides

~ War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ~

Jimmy Carter

~ Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty ~

Aristotle

~ Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. ~

Jerry Garcia

~ No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience. ~

Theodore Roosevelt

~ No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. ~

Mary Wallstonecraft

~ Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. ~

Oliver Goldsmith

~ It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes. ~

George Washington

~ Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. ~

Anatole France

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

Thomas Hardy

~ The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. ~

Max Born

~ I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself. ~

Rod Serling

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