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Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Evil Quotes , Political Quotes

'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness and finish. 'It's as if the morbid condition was an evil creature which, when it found itself closely hunted, flew at the throat of its pursuer. If you worry the microbes too much they may worry you. I've seen cases of it, and not necessarily in microbic diseases either. There was, of course, the well-known instance of Liston and the aneurism; and a dozen others that I could mention.'

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It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

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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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For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

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This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

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As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Evil Quotes

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.

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

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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.'

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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

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... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

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A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Evil Quotes , Deeds Quotes

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Evil Quotes , Wickedness Quotes

The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.

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there is evil everywhere under the sun.

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