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We must not be frightened nor cajoled/ into accepting evil as deliverance from evil./ We must go on struggling to be human,/ though monsters of abstractions/ police and threaten us. (Quote by - Robert Hayden)

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. (Quote by - George Eliot)

Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgement for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

We would have said the Nazis were evil in any event, since we had decided to fight them. This has always been the style in war, until very recently..in order that we can be frenzied on the battlefield. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that our German enemies really were satanic this time..We had fought something which was totally obscene.(Quote by - This was very bad for us.. One idea put into our heads was that our enemies were so awful, so evil, that we, by contrast, must be remarkably pure. That illusion of purity..has become our curse today. )

If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word. (Quote by - Terry Pratchett)

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for. (Quote by - Wilbur J. Chapman)

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty. (Quote by - Voltaire)

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. (Quote by - Mae West)

Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. (Quote by - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux)

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. (Quote by - Henry Miller)

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. (Quote by - Herman Hesse)

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. (Quote by - Henry Miller)

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. (Quote by - William Law)

Evil be to him who evil thinks. (Quote by - Edward II)

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher praised the pontiff's role in toppling communism. Millions owe him their freedom and self-respect. The whole world is inspired by his example, .. His life was a long struggle against the lies employed to excuse evil. By combating the falsehoods of communism and proclaiming the true dignity of the individual, his was the moral force behind victory in the Cold War. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)

The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: / A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. (Quote by - Bible)

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. (Quote by - George Orwell)

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. (Quote by - Benjamin Banneker)

Keeping away from all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impurities. (Quote by - Buddha)

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)

So there befell them the evil (consequences) of what they earned; and (as for) those who are unjust from among these, there shall befall them the evil (consequences) of what they earn, and they shall not escape. (Quote by - quran)

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