#evil

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth. ↗

— Walter Martin

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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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You can best fight any existing evil from the inside. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

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But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself. ↗

— Patrick McGoohan

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The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. ↗

— Menander

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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. ↗

— Stephen King

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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy. ↗

— Michael Moore

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