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Here there's no possibility of doing evil. You live in evil. In the absence of remorse. How could you do evil?
Of what use are good words to an evil heart?
LOUIS BECKE, "Solepa," By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore and Other Stories
Between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
All human beings ... are commingled out of good and evil.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.
All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.... The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are the most humorless, though in the movies they frequently get some of the best lines.
By the fruit the tree is to be known. An evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Williamson Durley, Oct. 3, 1845
- Shall the hag Evil die with the child of Good,
- Or propagate again her loathèd kind,
- Thronging the cells of the diseased mind,
- Hateful with hanging cheeks, a withered brood,
- Though hourly pastured on the salient blood?
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