Quotes 241 till 260 of 383.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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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.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
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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.
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Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 -
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.
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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.
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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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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.
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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
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The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
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