Evil Quotes - Page 17

• Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

  Xunzi

  Human Nature, Goodness, Humans

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• know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain,
  You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'.
  And the stresses of life can take you off the right path,
  Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff...
  We gotta hold it down so we can move on past
  All adversities, so we can get through fast.

  Q-Tip

  Stress, Rap, Moving

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• Take a look at the police and how they treat you,
  Take a look at these corporations that cheat you.
  Democrats and Republicans are all see-through.
  Now we votin for the lesser of two evils...
  Man, don't let 'em deceive you.
  This is an autocracy, not a democracy,
  But to call this a democracy without mock interest
  In the laws of society? That's called hypocrisy.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Men, Law

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• Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

  Mencius

  Reality, Men, Heaven

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• Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

  Charles Kingsley

  Pain, Reality, Conquer

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.243

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• You know the evil that men do, hell is where the men go.
  We snatched him by his hands and feet and threw him out the window:
  "Up, up, and away cause I don't play, clown,
  Buck, buck, buck, take that with you on the way down."
  I'm hoping you got springs and wings on your shoes,
  But you lose, because I got the Ill Street Blues.

  Kool G Rap

  Spring, Rap, Men

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• God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.

  Millard Fillmore

  Government, Presidential, Slavery

  Millard Fillmore (1970). “Millard Fillmore Papers”

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• Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Past, Presidential

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.876, Best Books on

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• They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

  Ronald Reagan

  Presidential, Focus, Unions

  Ronald Reagan's Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, www.reaganlibrary.gov. March 8, 1983.

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• The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, War, Struggle

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.

  George H. W. Bush

  Shining, Presidential, Thank God

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• Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, And Love, Answers

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• When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.

  William James

  Reality, Men, Feelings

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know where hell is ... another dimension, perhaps, or another plane of reality. As for getting there ... it's a choice between sinning and being tricked by demons It's a plane of evil ... despair ... and magic of the foulest kind.

  Alan Grant

  Kindness, Reality, Choices

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• It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Reality, Light, Hatred

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• A man asked Muhammad what was the mark whereby he might know the reality of his faith. Muhammad said, 'If thou derive pleasure from the good which thou hast performed and thou be grieved for the evil which thou hast committed, thou art a true believer.' The man said. 'In what doth a fault really consist' Muhammad said, 'when action pricketh thy conscience, forsake it.'

  Muhammad

  Art, Men, Reality

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• It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Mistake, Greatness, Men

  "Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics".

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• Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.

  Herbert Hoover

  Suicide, Spiritual, Lying

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• Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.

  Josef Pieper

  Historical, Sorrow, Guilt

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  It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

  Aristotle

  Character, Choices, Opinion

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

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• The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals.

  Richard Dawkins

  Two, People, Generations

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

  Edmund Burke

  Years, Half, Rage

  Edmund Burke, Christian ENGLISH (pseud.) (1861). “Liberation tested by Philosophy and Experience. In “Reflections on the French Revolution,” etc. [The dedication signed: Christian English.]”, p.14

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• The majority of human conflict comes from people just feeling disrespected.

  Paul K. Chappell

  People, Feelings, Majority

  Paul K. Chappell (2013). “The Art of Waging Peace: A Strategic Approach to Improving Our Lives and the World”, p.48, Easton Studio Press LLC

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• The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

  Mike Lofgren

  People, Peers, Way

  Mike Lofgren (2012). “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted”, p.120, Penguin

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