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| ...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. | | Stephen King | |
| A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. | | John Stuart Mill | |
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| All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. | | Edmund Burke | |
| All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. | | Buddha | |
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| Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. | | Søren Kierkegaard | |
| But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint when most I play the devil | | William Shakespeare | |
| Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream | | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
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| Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. | | Samuel Butler | |
| Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Evil is unspectacular and always human And shares our bed and eats at our own table | | W. H. Auden | |
| Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. | | Aristotle | |
| For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. | | Robert Benchley | |
