Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It’s the people who claim that they’re… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from… — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“1) There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or… — William L. Rowe Copy Share Image
But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows what horrors I have saved the world from 'cuz people can't see what never happened. All evil flows from independence,… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I like 'Reanimator,' and I like 'Evil Dead 2.' But I really like the Corman movies from the late '60s and early… — Owen King Copy Share Image
Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever been face to face with pure evil, so I don't think I've ever seen it with my… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Sadly, many storytellers and artists are still addicted to the old delusions (happy is boring, evil is interesting) about the risks of… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He,… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil.… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's… — Mario Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I have realized that we cannot completely erase all the evil from the world, but we can change the way we… — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
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