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The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek.
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The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
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The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it 'CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL'; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
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The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
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The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
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