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All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. -- Blaise Pascal
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. -- Blaise Pascal
There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses. -- Dean Koontz
Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil. -- William Wordsworth
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. -- Abraham Maslow
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. -- Ernest Becker
The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness. -- Rudolf Steiner
Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hears men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil? -- Chesterton
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
In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
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
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. -- Agatha Christie
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. -- Xun Zi
I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues. -- Greg Iles
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. -- W. H. Auden
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. -- Francis Bacon
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. -- Pythagoras
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. -- John Locke
I love the 'Underworld' movies because the vampires aren't automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs. -- Jeaniene Frost
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! -- Mackenzie Astin
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. -- Benjamin Haydon
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. -- Richard John Neuhaus
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare. -- William Vickrey
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. -- Desmond Tutu
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. -- Plato
The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing. -- Ted Naifeh
Human reason can excuse any evil. -- Veronica Roth
Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness. -- Eckhart Tolle
Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN. -- Agatha Christie
...What you're calling evil, is part of human nature. -- Nikolas Schreck
Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior. -- Joyce Carol Oates
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The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. -- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
He's ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise. -- Anne Rice
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. -- Gore Vidal
Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love. -- Wladyslaw Szpilman
Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love. -- Wladyslaw Szpilman
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. -- George Orwell
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil. -- Amit Abraham
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it. -- Veronica Roth
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. -- John Marsden
I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good? -- Robert McNamara
God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart. -- Louis de Bernieres
The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you. -- Barrows Dunham
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. -- John Brunner
Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness -- Rick Riordan
...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings. -- Arno Gruen
How do we still believe that human nature is not evil when 60 years old men rape 3 years innocent girls~? -- M.F. Moonzajer
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. -- George Bernard Shaw
The main problem I always have with multiplayer is that human beings are grabby, entitled, selfish, ugly, stupid, evil cockstoppers. -- Yahtzee Croshaw
A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism. -- Alan Keyes
It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history. -- Theodore Parker
Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul. -- Arthur Bryant
It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil. -- Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination. -- Elizabeth Kostova
We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason. -- Barack Obama
Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil. -- Dan Simmons
The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong. -- Richard Jefferies
There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap -- Kirtida Gautam
Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that. -- Anthony de Mello
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being. -- Paulo Coelho
The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder... -- Inge Genefke
The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition. -- Philip Zimbardo
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal clashes with evil. -- David Harsanyi
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic. -- Lucinda Riley
Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered. -- Wojciech Kurtyka
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. -- Fred Woodworth
Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care. -- James Boswell
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings. -- Eric Hoffer
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes. -- Plato
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy. -- Adam Smith
I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being. -- Sonia Sotomayor
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We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see. -- Louise Erdrich
But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable. -- Terry Crews
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government. -- Eric Hoffer
Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good. -- Zainab Salbi
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, not between classes, nor between political parties, but through every human heart -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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