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Evil

Sin, wickedness, amorality

QUOTES

If you are sure that "War is not the answer," you don't understand the question. 
 Guy Strickland
 2006

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
 Plato
 -400

The face of 'evil' is always the face of total need.
 Wm S Burroughs
 Naked Lunch, 1959

To say that "War is not the answer" is to deny the existence of evil in the world. 
 Guy Strickland
 2006

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
 Wm Shakespeare
 Hamlet, 1601

The greatest penalty of evil-doing - to grow into the likeness of bad men.
 Plato
 -400

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing, for evil to triumph.
 Edmund Burke
 1770

To respond to evil by committing another evil does not eliminate evil but allows it to go on forever.
 Vaclav Havel
 1989

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
 Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
 Gulag Archipelago,

See Also

References

History
  • Holocaust
  • Armenian genocide
  • Stalin's starvation of the Ukraine, 1930s
  • Darfur
  • North Korea

    Arts & Science

  • Movies: Schindler's List, Psycho, Birth of a Nation, Silence of the Lambs
  • psychopaths and sociopaths

    Literature

  • Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
  • Thomas Harris: Hannibal Lecter books
  • Aesop: The Flea and the Man, The Farmer and the Viper




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