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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself. -- George A. Smith
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In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times. -- Michael Burgess
There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be. -- Johnny Depp
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom. -- Natan Sharansky
The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for. -- John Christopher
The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge. -- Al Franken
To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint. -- Georges Bataille
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. -- Carl Sandburg
Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom. -- Chris Hedges
Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them. -- Jim Butcher
The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison. -- Bryant McGill
While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good. -- Adam Hamilton
Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy. -- Alexander von Humboldt
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war. -- Dan Quayle
To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good. -- Philip Pullman
That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom. -- Dennis Kucinich
A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing in its evil influence and control over America and the entire world. -- Ezra Taft Benson
We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope!We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion! -- Widad Akrawi

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