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  People who claim they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us… It’s people who claim that they’re good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

  Gregory Maguire

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Evil

• For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

  Joyce Cary

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Goodness, Evil, Freedom, Spirit, Mankind, Creativity

• Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

  Aristotle

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Anticipation, Worry, Evil

• I try to ignore the Internet. It’s an evil, evil place.

  Ty Segall

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  Tags in Evil, Ignore

• Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.

  Topics in English Proverbs

  Tags in Evil, Devil

• Why can’t the evil inclination see its illogic? Logic, in the ideal, demands a view of the entire field. The evil inclination reduces its field to the size of its glance – and is perfectly logical in terms of what it sees! If the only thing one sees is a peppermint bar, then, naturally, a peppermint bar becomes the world and there is nothing more logical than living for peppermint!

  Shraga Silverstein

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• When we are not under attack by the evil inclination, we must spend our time building up our defenses in preparation for the next onslaught.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• We must select the proper defense for a particular onslaught with the evil inclination with the same care and presence of mind that a painter exercises in selecting the precise color for a particular effect.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• We commit the sin and assume that all our former good was insincere, hypocritical. There is no greater homage we can pay to the evil inclination.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• We can increase our effectiveness against the evil inclination by learning to recognize the new forms of its old weapons, so that they do not appear to us as new weapons for which we have not as yet devised defenses.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• To best the evil inclination, the mind must be quicker that the eye.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• There is no such thing as fighting a losing battle with the evil inclination. In that battle, as long as one is fighting, he is winning.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• The first thing that a man must realize in respect to the evil inclination, is that he is at war and not the victim of a natural catastrophe.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• The evil inclination occasionally allows us to be tempted and not to fall, so that we may allow ourselves to be tempted even further and fall even deeper.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• The evil inclination is a rope that one can either hang himself with or scale to G-d.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Evil, Without, Goodness

• I don’t believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

  Isak Dinesen

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Evil, Abundance

• Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
  Then he is not omnipotent.
  Is he able, but not willing?
  Then he is malevolent.
  Is he both able and willing?
  Then whence cometh evil?
  Is he neither able nor willing?
  Then why call him God?

  Epicurus

  Topics in God

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Evil

• It was as though in those last minutes he (Eichmann) was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness has taught us–the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought defying banality of evil.

  Hannah Arendt

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• Evil is unspectacular and always human And shares our bed and eats at our own table.

  W. H. Auden

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