#evil

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. ↗

— John Cheever

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I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power. ↗

— Harmon Killebrew

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We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil. ↗

— Claus von Stauffenberg

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If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it. ↗

— Rosario Dawson

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I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell. ↗

— Tom Holland

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Idle time is the devil's play. ↗

— Mark Dayton

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Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years. ↗

— Lord Alfred Douglas

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. ↗

— Plato

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