#evil

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

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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

#devil #fellows #need #old #since

Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#involved #love #make #other #people

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that. ↗

— Brion James

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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck. ↗

— William James

#foot #having #his #keep #long