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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.


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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
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BIBLE Evil communications corrupt good manners.
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WILLIAM PENN A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it
WILLIAM PENN A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...
MARGARET MEAD We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
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MICHAEL O'BRIEN No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. W...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Justice must never mirror evil, Justice must always be a mirror for Evil so that all may see.
AHMAD RAGAB All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
OVID All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
OVID My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people su...
NANCY FARMER Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and e...
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MARIA MONTESSORI Those who are found to be corrupt must face the full force of the law.
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MENCIUS Oh corrupt man!For who can prevent the mind of Man from nesting evil & unproductive thoughts.
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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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KURTIS J. WIEBE The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD HALE BROUN The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD BROUN The urge to gamble is so universal, and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD BROUN The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD HALE BROUN There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
BUDDHA There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
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M.E. THOMAS Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
ADLAI STEVENSON Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Good and evil are so completely entwined any action can be good or evil.
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MAHATMA GANDHI Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
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BERNIE SANDERS You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contrib...
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FEISAL ABDUL RAUF Corrupt governments are run by corrupt politicians that run corrupt law enforcement agencies.
STEVEN MAGEE Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and ...
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LAKSHYA BHARADWAJ Good riddance to the blatantly corrupt Democratic Party!
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CHARLES R. SWINDOLL My life was empty and my soul was scourged by my
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E.C. LEMUS It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, t...
GEORGE MCGOVERN It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunist...
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