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• People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful
  conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of
  living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities
  whose enjoyment is called the “American way of life.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, People, Vices

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke rising above the Pentagon.

  Mike Pence

  September 11, Enemy, Rising

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• To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Simple, Luxury, Doubt

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.22, Vintage

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• The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Character, Delicate Things, Imagination

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• Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Selfish, Suffering

  "Lee Strobel Probes 'Why?' During First Sunday Service After Colorado Shooting" by Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Sports Psychology, Managers

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• We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times.

  Pope Pius X

  Christian, Healing, Rosary

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• The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Prayer, Mean, Blessing

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• People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt me. But they could do the same just because I'm black. They could do the same just because I'm American.

  Frank Ocean

  Hurt, Hate, People

  "Frank Ocean: Coming out helped remove 'a boulder on my chest'" by Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

  John Rawls

  Pain, Animal, Compassion

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• The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

  John Rawls

  Moving, Men, Desire

  John RAWLS (1971). “A Theory of Justice”, p.439, Harvard University Press

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• It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

  Martin Buber

  Thinking, Opposites, Two

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• What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Joy, Sensual

  David Paul, Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Poison and vision: poems and prose of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud”, Univ of Salzberg Pr

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• I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I’m still going through the motions.

  Ross Macdonald

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: Three Exciting Novels: The Moving Target, The Way Some People Die [and] The Barbarous Coast”, New York : Knopf

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• No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.

  Leo Strauss

  Men, Long, Envy

  Leo Strauss (1978). “The City and Man”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems to describe the essence of the enemy we are attacking, the evil we are eradicating.

  Harvey Mansfield

  Sex, Essence, Enemy

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• God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all enigmas, all feeling, all desires, every unuttered secret, all thrones and dominions, all personalities, all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven, and hell.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Law, Space, Personality

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.62, Fig

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• The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Philosophy

  "The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life".

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• You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

  Tom Lehrer

  Fun, Stupid, Thinking

  "Stop clapping, this is serious". Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Military, People, Police

  "Barrayar". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991.

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• To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spring, Civilization, Brotherhood

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.159, Penguin

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• The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

  Beatrix of the Netherlands

  Eye, Responsibility, Fighting

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• Advertising is 'an evil service'.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Advertising

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• The people who did this act on America, and who may be planning further acts, are evil people. They don't represent an ideology, they don't represent a legitimate political group of people. They're flat evil. That's all they can think about, is evil. And as a nation of good folks, we're going to hunt them down, and we're going to find them, and we will bring them to justice.

  George W. Bush

  War, Thinking, Evil People

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• I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a good thing upon a people who are unwilling to receive it. The great principle is the right of every community to judge and decide for itself, whether a thing is right or wrong, whether it would be good or evil for them to adopt it; and the right of free action, the right of free thought, the right of free judgment upon the question is dearer to every true American than any other under a free government.

  Stephen A. Douglas

  War, Government, People

  Bob Blaisdell, Stephen A. Douglas (2012). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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