#evil

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

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Gossip is the Devil's radio. ↗

— George Harrison

#gossip #radio

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#evil #good #modern #nothing #philosophy

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Nobody is born evil. ↗

— Alice Miller

#evil #nobody

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#been #between #dissolve #distinction #eternal

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#domesticated #evil #goodness #his #man

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old. ↗

— Martin Luther

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