#evil

Imaginary evils are incurable. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#goodness #make #only #readable #sense

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#evil #heart #human #human heart #may

Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom. ↗

— George III

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Evil counsel travels fast. ↗

— Sophocles

#evil #fast #travels

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

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There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. ↗

— Georges Bataille

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