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Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things. -- David Ogilvy
I think there are some very evil things about gentrification. -- Jim McKay
God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things. -- Adam Hamilton
When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. -- Tony Campolo
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly. -- Protagoras
People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are. -- Terry Eagleton
For good people to do evil things, it takes religion. -- Steven Weinberg
I just love to put a hurt on evil things. (Katra) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why do people do evil things?Messenger's answer stunned me, "Why did you? -- Michael Grant
Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide. -- Jacob Grimm
Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are. -- Karl Barth
Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man. -- Philo
I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it. -- Joel Osteen
I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame. -- Bob Dylan
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it. -- Wilfred Bion
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail. -- Neville Chamberlain
If you think of evil things, you are likely to do evil things and that will never pay you a pesewa. Think of good things and do good always! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil. -- Peter Sarsgaard
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. -- Steven Weinberg
It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway? -- Bram Stoker
During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year. -- H. L. Mencken
During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year." -- H. L. Mencken
Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man. -- Pythagoras
I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things? -- Elie Wiesel
I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain. -- Philip Yancey
If only evil things are done by evil people... Life would be then safe, morally elevated, cozy - we know how to spot evil people and what to do with them to pay for their crimes. -- Zygmunt Bauman
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. -- Jared Diamond
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind. -- Agnes Smedley
I sing about what a holy fool I am, and that although moments in my life are so cruel and relationships can be so cruel Iâ??m still in love with Judas. I still go back again to those evil things, -- Lady G
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might. -- Dr. Seuss
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For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will. -- Saint Augustine
The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not killed for God. If Christ makes a home in your mind, satan can't get there. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Have you heard of the most evil things done by people in their lifetime? They have coveted men's wives, killed hundreds of Christians and sold their best friend's life away for just a few coins. Isn't it interesting that they were God's chosen in the bible? ---Saul, Judas & King David -- Shannon L. Alder
The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction. -- Robin Williams
You can't be serious," Eve said. "Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in a room and terrible, evil things get done to us and put on the Internet. I've seen the movies." "Eve," Michael said. "Horror movies are not documentaries. -- Rachel Caine
This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land. -- Spotted Tail
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion. -- Kurt Sutter
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil. -- Ovid
It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do. -- Richard Dawkins
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things. -- Stana Katic
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies. -- William Howard Taft
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. -- Sophocles
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil. -- Benjamin Whichcote
As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things. -- John Carroll Lynch
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate. -- Antonio Munoz Molina
I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there are a lot of things that happen as a result of sin. -- Anne Graham Lotz
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things? -- Philip Zimbardo
All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. -- Terry Pratchett
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil. -- Ovid
Bad things happen because we live in a world with evil. -- Tarryn Fisher
All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will. -- Plato
You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil. -- Aphra Behn
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will. -- Aristotle
All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil. -- Ellis Peters
There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out. -- William Shakespeare
Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of. -- Orson Scott Card
Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens. -- Baruch Spinoza
Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on. -- Bruce Catton
Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things. -- Sophocles
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Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted. -- J. C. Ryle
Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things. -- Cotton Mather
FACTS Fact #1 Mean people suck. Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people. Fact #3 Good doesn't always prevail over evil. -- Susane Colasanti
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation. -- Moliere
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation. -- Charles Spurgeon
Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen." - Carter to Georgina -- Richelle Mead
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil. -- Michael Bloomberg
I did some things to some people that was downright evil. Is it karma coming back to me - so much drama. -- Gucci Mane
Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them. -- Voltaire
There's a difference between people who do hurtful things because they're evil and people who do bad things because of their circumstances. -- Bree Despain
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil. -- Desmond Tutu
I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done. -- Peter Criss
Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil. -- Plato
The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world. -- Keith Ablow
Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology. -- Geoffrey Hinton
Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted. -- Sathya Sai Baba
I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way. -- Anne Enright
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. -- Thomas Carlyle
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
I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong? -- Lawrence Durrell
I've learned that nobody is either all good or all evil. We all make mistakes, but we all are also capable of accomplishing extraordinary things. -- Kelly Stables
There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded. -- Arthur C. Clarke
There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy. -- Don Henley
I did a lot of strange things. But I am a bad Catholic that's for sure. Although I think it's difficult to believe in evil. -- Lars von Trier
Unlike those who fight truly intolerant things like terrorism throughout the world, Madonna is really the lone brave voice in the wilderness standing up against evil. -- Greg Gutfeld
Ordinarily, God allows these things [i.e. evil suggestions and wickedness] to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy humility. -- Vincent de Paul
People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless. -- Erin Morgenstern
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do. -- Octavia E. Butler
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
The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse. -- Iain Pears
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
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil. -- St. Jerome
All things, good and evil, come out, it seems, of the East. The Illuminati, like the Ismailites, dealt in allegories; and like the Mazdakites, they played with fire. -- Ameen Rihani
I just wanted to create things that I could be proud of. Money was just an evil byproduct to pay the bills at the end of the year. -- Richard Branson
What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous. -- Herbert Spencer
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated. -- Milan Kundera
They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair. -- Terry Pratchett
It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater than they really are. -- Tom Patton
Just as I've always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I've always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay. -- Patricia Briggs
To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection. -- Wayne Dyer
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Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood. -- Robin Day

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