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the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Quotations regarding 'Evil'

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.
Joel Rosenberg, American Author (1954-  )
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
Roberto Rossellini, Italian Director (1906-1977)
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher (1712-1778)
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
Rudy Rucker, American Scientist (1946-  )
The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
Dean Rusk, American Diplomat (1909-1994)
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
John Ruskin, English Writer (1819-1900)
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher (1872-1970)
Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.
Samuel Rutherford, Scottish Theologian
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.
Samuel Rutherford, Scottish Theologian
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust, Roman Historian
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.
Jimmy Sangster, -
There is no evil in the world without a remedy.
Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian Poet
Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian Poet
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George Santayana, American Philosopher (1863-1952)
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
George Santayana, American Philosopher (1863-1952)
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
David Sarnoff, American Inventor (1891-1971)
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher (1905-1980)
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
Siegfried Sassoon, English Poet (1886-1967)
I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.
Adam Savage, American Entertainer (1967-  )
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author (1893-1957)
 
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