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“Perhaps some of us are simply born evil, and despite our best efforts we remain that way.”

Book:The Silent Patient

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“This great evil, where's it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might've known? Does our ruin benefit the earth, does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night?”

War Evil Morality Quotes

Book:The Thin Red Line

Source: The Thin Red Line

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

World Evil Do Something Dangerous Place

Author:Albert Einstein

“If there is no wound in your hand You can carry poison in your hand. Poison does not attack one who is unwounded. There is no evil for one who does not do evil.”

Evil Buddhist Poison V 124

Book:The Dhammapada

Source: The Dhammapada

“And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.”

Evil Ignorance

Book:In the Miso Soup

Source: In the Miso Soup

“We put great expectations on our tomorrows when we truly need to rely on ourselves. Far too many overlook personal action, as a means to get things done. Blame is easily passed if one does not hold themselves accountable.”

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Author:Jay Long

“The will to be polite, to maintain civility and normalcy, is fearfully strong. I wonder sometimes how much evil is permitted to run unchecked simply because it would be rude to interrupt it.”

Evil Civility

Book:The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“I am not good. Nor am I evil. I am no hero. Nor am I villain. I am AIDAN.”

Evil Hero Good Villain Aidan

Book:Obsidio

Source: Obsidio

“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”

Evil Justice Society Means Justifying The Ends

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme, for it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension yet--and this is its horror--it can spread like a fungus over the surface of the earth and lay waste the entire world. Evil comes from a failure to think.”

Evil Good Radicalism

Book:Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Source: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

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