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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-
George Carlin
Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.
Charles Dickens
I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
Leo Tolstoy
Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party
Oscar Wilde
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Max Lerner
As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .
J.K. Rowling
Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.
Mahatma Gandhi
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything
Albert Einstein
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn,Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.
W. H. Auden, 1Sep39
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerus
The distinguishing mark of man is the , the instrument with which he does all his mischief.
George Orwell
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
George Steiner
There is in every village a torch - the teacher:and an extinguisher - the clergyman.
Victor Hugo
We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
Maria Weston Chapman