The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave… — Buddha Copy Share Image
My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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We have to make a distinction between members of the Jewish community who sincerely are trying to follow the laws, statutes and… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
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This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I deteriorate. I might tell you something one day and then something else another day. You fold in on yourself and that's… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
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Armel shrugged. "I suppose so, Brother, but why do creatures have to fight?" Demple picked Mudge up and placed him on his… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
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“Sin is our condition," I said. "Say rather that love is our rightful condition." "You talk like--you are a good man! But… — Maria McCann Copy Share Image
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![“For God would never have created any human beings, let alone any angels, whose future evil he foreknew, if he had not known equally well how he would put them to use for the good and so adorn the course of the ages, like the most beautiful poem, with antitheses of a sort.[39]” quote by Augustine of Hippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f87/augustine-of-hippo-2589_angels_for-god-would-never-have-created-any-hum_2503265.jpg)
