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The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. Merchant Of Venice
William Shakespeare
The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.
The devil has his elect.
Thomas Carlyle
The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
Samuel Johnson
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
George Eliot
The devil's most devilish when respectable.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.
C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon,
You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
Sir Walter Raleigh
By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome
Proverb
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
John Berger
A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eye
This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those oozing walls, --what declaimers!
Victor Hugo
Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need to learn to defend themselves by the actual practice of doing so rather than familiarity with theory.
J.K. Rowling
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The Soviet Union is an Evil Empire, and Soviet communism is the focus of evil in the modern world
Ronald Reagan
Overcome evil with good. St. Paul
Bible
No evil shall happen to the just.
