Quotes with evil-doers

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  • Bertie Carvel People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Abu Bakr Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Carice van Houten Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
    Carice van Houten
    Dutch actress, singer and radio presenter (1976 - )
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  • Plato Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Graham Greene Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Robert Hayden Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • T. S. Eliot So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Ayn Rand So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money?
    Atlas Shrugged (1957) Part II sect 2
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Thomas Paine Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bill James Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Benjamin Whichcote Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Plato Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Antonio Porchia That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Joseph Conrad The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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