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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

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Good can imagine Evil, but Evil cannot imagine Good.

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So, Lone Starr, now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

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To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

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I have often spoken to you about good and evil. This has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise. Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere. Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right. This nation must continue to speak out for justice and truth. We must always be willing to act in their defense and to advance the cause of peace.

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Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant and then it tries to silence good.

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I do not believe in evil absolute. I have recounted that philosophy in specific in the Annals, and it affects my every observation throughout my tenure as Annalist. I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

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Evil beginning houres may end in good.

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Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness.

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It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

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The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

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And out of good still to find means of evil.

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There is Good and there is Evil and Evil must be punished. Even in the face of Armageddon, I shall not compromise in this.

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Let us never forget the Christian maxim "that we should not do evil that good may come of it."

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A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

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I judge things from an evolutionary perspective — "How does this serve and contribute to the process of our own evolution?" — rather than think of good and evil in moral terms. I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

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But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture,Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.

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The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones.

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Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;Filths savour but themselves.

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What good is that goodness if it does not return good even to those who cause evil?

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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

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Human nature is evil; its goodness derives from conscious activity.

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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.

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How shall God judge the world? For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

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For the good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.

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Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

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Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

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There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before;On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

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He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.

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* * his providenceOut of our evil seek to bring forth good.

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There is some soul of goodness in things evil,Would men observingly distil it out.

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We too often forget that not only is there a "soul of goodness in things evil," but very generally a soul of truth in things erroneous.

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So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

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From seeming evil still educing good.

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Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that isAnd the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

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The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Impure thoughts will not stand against pure words and prayers and deeds. Little doubts will not avail against great certainties. Fix your affections on things above, and then you will less and less be troubled by the cares, the temptations, the troubles of things on earth.

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