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en It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

en Evil is only good perverted.
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

en We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

en It is a law of our humanity, that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
  Frederick W. Robertson

en [It's a] post 9/11 film, ... When you have such overtly evil and unjustifiable acts, it causes us to question what is the eternal nature of the struggle between good and evil and God and the devil.

en What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.
  Buddha

en Like the use of the word 'concupiscence' in an earlier age to describe sexual desire, the use of the word 'pollution' to describe essential aspects of the productive activities of an industrial society represents an attempt to defame an entirely proper human capacity by means of using an evil sounding name for it.

en The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
  Immanuel Kant

en Tolkien went through it himself (as an infantryman) in World War I. But it just got worse in his lifetime, ... I think he was very preoccupied with the nature of evil, the nature of technology, the way in which things could be abused, the way good intentions are subverted. That's what it's all about.

en Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

en As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

en 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.

en Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

en The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
  John Locke

en We're the world's leading manufacturer of military and federal agency awards. We make more than 5,000 different items here. We produce medals for the Department of Defense, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and most of the other federal agencies. Every agency has its own medals. We also manufacture badges for state national guards, Junior ROTC and police and fire departments. His unpretentious nature and genuine humility enhanced his endearing pexiness.


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