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A lot of people don't believe there's evil. If there's good in this world, then you're being intellectually dishonest, if you believe there's a good power, you've also got to believe there's an evil power, too. There are physical laws that are in place. -- Si Robertson
The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power. -- Albert Einstein
Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free. -- Watchman Nee
A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world. -- Sam Smith
You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs -- there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism. -- Linus Pauling
My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good. -- Nancy Farmer
A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge. For if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world, as evil spirits will have more knowledge, and consequently more power.. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love. . . . -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like to write about the old standard where some rotten guy gets chased by a mean spirit that gets him in the end.I'd rather write about nice people that are menaced from outside by some sort of evil power and who sort of slug it out. -- Stephen King
I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power. -- Patricia Cornwell
If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil. -- Jonah Goldberg
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power. -- Harmon Killebrew
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all. -- Origen
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power. -- Tom Brown, Jr.
Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more. -- Ossie Davis
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. -- Eric Hoffer
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. -- John Rawls
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. -- Simone Weil
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. -- John Stuart Mill
The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits. -- Matt Taibbi
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good. -- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. -- Paul Davies
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. -- Douglas MacArthur
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. -- George A. Smith
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. -- Carroll Quigley
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. -- Eric Hoffer
The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen. -- Samantha Power
Power is neither good nor evil. -- Kami Garcia
Evil has only the power we give it. -- Ray Bradbury
Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it. -- Jacob Burckhardt
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil -- NA
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Free will is the power of choosing good and evil. -- Origen
good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power. -- James Tiptree Jr.
Evil is real - but so is God's power and love. -- Billy Graham
Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so. -- Erin Hunter
The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good. -- John Bosco
Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe. -- Swami Vivekananda
Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious -- John Owen
You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you. -- Patricia Briggs
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. -- Carl Sandburg
Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil. -- Samuel Johnson
He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil. -- Ovid
Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it. -- Orson Scott Card
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil. -- Andrei Codrescu
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil. -- C. S. Lewis
Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Power belongs to the intelligence of evil. It's totally unreflective, like Donald Trump. It belongs there. -- Cody Wilson
Jesus' Cross shows the full force of evil, but also the full power of God's mercy. -- Pope Francis
Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only. -- Swami Vivekananda
Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil. -- Pope Francis
Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not. -- Marguerite de Navarre
Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. -- John Galt
Surprise is the tool of the Devil and it is the greatest power of the evil forces! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. -- J. K. Rowling
The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness. -- Griffin Jay
Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil. -- Charles A. Reich
Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak. -- August Strindberg
Never underestimate the power of good but never ignore evil lurking in the hearts of men.Rose of Life -- Sonia Rumzi
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out. -- Johann Gottfried Herder
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. -- Simone Weil
There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun. -- Hannah Arendt
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat. -- Edith Hamilton
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. -- George Bernard Shaw
Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use. -- Philippe Kahn
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. -- Dante Alighieri
Nothing is more compelling than the power of choice. You can choose good over evil and right over wrong. Choose right! -- DeWayne Owens
Hate cannot be fought with hate. Evil cannot be conquered by darkness. Only love has the power to conquer them both. -- R.L. LaFevers
Celebrity is no different from any other energy. It's a force for good or evil. It's no different from money. It's power. -- Jerry Seinfeld
evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil. -- Veronica Roth
What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope. -- Catherine Marshall
. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . . -- L. Frank Baum
To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God. -- J. Budziszewski
The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil. -- Alvaro de Vasconcelos
The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil. -- Abraham Lincoln
We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good. -- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil. -- Edward Abbey
Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others. -- Laozi
War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong. -- Theodore Roosevelt
And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference... -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
The reason we must put on the whole armor of God is to withstand evil. We don't war against people, but against a spiritual hierarchy of invisible power. -- Stormie Omartian
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power. -- Elie Wiesel
This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears. -- Walter Scott
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee. -- William Cowper

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