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title: "3 Caused Evil Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/the-politician-attempts-to-remedy-the-evil-by-increasing-the-very/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/the-root-of-humanly-caused-evil-is-not-man-s-animal-nature-not/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

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> [“But . . . but was evil an entity at all? What caused evil? Imperfection in activity . . . imperfection of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/but-but-was-evil-an-entity-at-all-what-caused-evil-imperfection-in/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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