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A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don't be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality. -- Steve Maraboli
Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions. -- Charles Spurgeon
According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil. -- Yajnavalkya
Paradise is the heart of the people who speak well of you; who think fondly about you because of your exemplary life. Hell is is the heart of the people who curse you, who wish you were dead for your evil actions against them -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom. -- Plato
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil. -- Sylvester Stallone
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. -- Emile M. Cioran
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. -- John Locke
In my opinion, what 'The Evil Dead' is to horror, 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' is to action-fantasy, with these horror elements and a steampunk-y twist. -- Derek Mears
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that. -- William Kingdon Clifford
To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles. -- John Nelson Darby
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. -- John Stuart Mill
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. -- Henry Miller
Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together. -- Wesley Clark
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil. -- Swami Sivananda
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation. -- Victor Salva
Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?' -- John Carroll Lynch
Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action. -- Pope Francis
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so. -- George Whitefield
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins. -- Joseph Addison
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses. -- Luc de Clapiers
Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions. -- Patricia Briggs
Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges. -- Piers Anthony
A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them. -- Francis Quarles
Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication. -- Walt Whitman
As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions. -- Ovid
Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Evil"¦doesn't mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to "the Christian majority's" private liking. -- Richard Dawkins
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury -- John Mills
In other films and TV shows, we might say, "Well, they're just evil." In our show [Daredeval], we're trying to say, "There's bad actions, but not necessarily bad people." -- Charlie Cox

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