#evil

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. ↗

— Menander

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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. ↗

— Stephen King

#better #cost #evil #good #goodness

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#construction #dreadful #evil #more #new

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#beginning #both #corrupt #covetousness #devil

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy. ↗

— Michael Moore

#capitalism #democracy #eliminate #evil #good

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#empty #endure #evil #forehead #january

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life. ↗

— Moses

#before #blessing #choose #curse #day

The world needs more anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. ↗

— Bede Jarrett

#anger #angry #evil #religious #world

Beauty is only skin deep but evil cuts straight through the soul. ↗

— Lauren Hammond

#evil #lauren-hammond #white-walls #beauty

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end. ↗

— John Newton

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