EVIL

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“Return evil for evil to no one.  Take into consideration what is fine from the viewpoint of all men.  If possible, as far as it depends on you, be peaceable with all men.” – Apostle Paul – Rom. 12:17,18 – the BIBLE

Imaginary evils soon become real by indulging our reflections on them. – John Ruskin

I always have been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right….Dead, but right. – Edward R. Murrow

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted. – Frederick Douglass

As long as the house of the Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals, the reputation of the church will remain in ruins. – Sinead O’Connor

The Holocaust is the most extreme version of the rootless race hate in European history. Classic European anti-Semitism was based more on the idea that Jews had killed Christ and were engaged in anti-European philosophy and financial conspiracy than on any measurable harm to Europe.  No one could point to any Jewish massacres of Christians. – Thomas Keneally – Author of SCHLINDLER’S LIST                             

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. – Theodore Roosevelt

“There is a kind of smoke in evil, in which the conscience cannot breathe.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

It is forbidden to kill—therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers to the sound of trumpets. – Voltaire

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke

“A boy’s best friend is his mother.” – Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates) to Janet Leigh (Marion Crane) – PSYCHO – Robert Bloch (Screenplay)

What’s done to children they will do to society. – Dr. Karl Meninger

The underlying responsibility of the Holocaust lies not just with Europe as Thomas Kennealy asserts, it lies with the churches—yes, organized religion—because they failed to teach and to act on the truth.  They turned their backs on what was really happening.  They could have helped prevent it in the first place. – Gary Pulliam                                                  

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. – Isaac Asimov    

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. – Charles Baudelaire

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“We know that we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” – Apostle John – 1 John 5:19  -- The BIBLE

Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. – Heinrich Heine

Fear is pain rising from the anticipation of evil. – Aristotle

Anger is the condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind. – Unknown       

“The Tecora crew had greatly underestimated the amount of provisions required for the journey and solved the problem by throwing fifty people overboard.” – Captain Fitzgerald (Peter Firth) to attorney Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey) – AMISTAD– David Franzoni (Screenplay) – 1997

Whatever begins in anger ends in shame. – Winston Churchill

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. – George Bernard Shaw

If God didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. – Voltaire

“Why are we here?” is the most important question a human being has to face.  I believe life has meaning in spite of the meaningless death I have seen. – Elie Wiesel – (Survivor, Nazi concentration camp)                      

Always choose the lessor of two evils; always remember that it is still evil. – Max Lerner

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke                                                   

They that play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield its sword. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

Where there is no imagination, there is no horror. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn.  Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return. – W. H. Auden

One of the worst of evils that plainly and eventually identifies itself is the lesson never learned by waging war. – Gary Pulliam

“He tied me to the radiator.  I watched him beat my mother to death with a tire iron.  Then he left us there.  Three days before a truant officer found us…They never found the old man.” – Officer Bud White (Russell Crowe) to Lynn Bracken (Kim Bassinger). – L. A. CONFIDENTIAL – Brian Helgeland / Curtis Hanson (Screenplay” – 1997

They that know no evil will expect none. – Ben Johnson

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. – Confucius

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The lack of money is the root of all evil. – Mark Twain

Friendship multiplies the good and divides the evil – Baltasar Gracian

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. – Ronald Reagan

All good is hard.  All evil is easy.  Dying, losing, cheating and mediocrity is easy.  Stay away from the easy. – Scott Alexander

The belief in the supernatural source of evil is not necessary, men themselves are quite capable of every wickedness. – Joseph Conrad

No change of circumstance can change a defect in character. – Ralph Waldo Emerson