Laozi Quotes, Evil Quotes, Distortion Quotes

The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

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

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Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

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Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

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Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

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Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

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A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Evil Quotes , Jekyll Quotes

I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.

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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

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Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

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Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

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Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.

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Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Evil Quotes , Nine Quotes

to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Hate Quotes , Evil Quotes

Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

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I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Believe Quotes , Evil Quotes

A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Humor Quotes , Evil Quotes