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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.


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OSSIE DAVIS Renunciation is the power of battling against evil forces and holding the mind in check.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth...
AGATHA CHRISTIE The battle between good and evil is actually the battle of occupying either more light or more shado...
APURVA GAGLANI Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge i...
VERONICA ROTH What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing...
LIBBA BRAY Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty
SIMONE WEIL Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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JOHN CONNOLLY It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate...
P.D. JAMES [It's a] post 9/11 film, ... When you have such overtly evil and unjustifiable acts, it causes us to...
CRAIG DETWEILER Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
BERTOLT BRECHT Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil.
ANONYMOUS What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, env...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: env...
BUDDHA For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, ag...
ANONYMOUS The worst evil is that most subtle evil. It is the evil that is merely 'base' which is more evil tha...
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NICK JOAQUíN This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.
HOWARD DEAN Every country in life is a battle field between the good & the evil forces.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.
RYū MURAKAMI Kira is evil ... There's no denying that ... But lately I've been starting to think of it more like ...
TSUGUMI OHBA It is pointless to try to overcome evil with evil
SUNDAY ADELAJA The passion and urge for hatred is there_ the Bible gives us the go ahead to exercise and express it...
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.
SOPHOCLES But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is no good and evil, there is only power... and those too weak to seek it.
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
HARMON KILLEBREW We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that wo...
WESS STAFFORD Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN He sees it as a battle between good and evil. He sees it as the evil being the acts of individuals, ...
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WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murde...
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ANNE BISHOP Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I�...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Sometimes it is better to fight evil with another type of evil..
OLASOT Fighting evil with evil doesn't diminish it; rather, it increases the evil.
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PHILIP PULLMAN The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
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JODEL AREVALO The play is more about their struggle, their battle, ... It's also playing with what language is and...
STEPHEN SACHS Goths don't identify with evil, we mourn the evil in society. The fascination with death is basica...
CHRIS SCHAFFER Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDE Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRé GIDE evil is not power; it is ignorance and misuse of good.
JAMES ALLEN Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the g...
FEISAL ABDUL RAUF ... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to e...
MALCOLM X Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life.
D.H. LAWRENCE Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in g...
BILL JAMES Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
JOHN CONNOLLY “Babies are born with pure hearts, minds and spirits; neither good nor evil but the second they ar...
GIDEON O. OMORUYI Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
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VOJISLAV SESELJ Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's ...
CRISS JAMI As long as mortals choose to do evil, then evil will triumph. And Lucifer will laugh when people bla...
KERRELYN SPARKS Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apar...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle bet...
TED DEKKER Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
JIM MORRISON Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so.
ERIN HUNTER More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas goo...
LARS VON TRIER Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil
DAVID SARNOFF There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer
ROBERT LYND Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which...
ERIC BURDON And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
HESIOD Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
VICTOR HUGO I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry
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EDWARD ABBEY But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people.
KRISTIN CASHORE It is horrible to be sad that someone is happy but it is even more evil to be happy that someone is ...
NICNICLOUISIANA The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral ev...
CHARLES TREVELYAN Evil becomes good to the conscience that is immuned to evil.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.
J. K. ROWLING Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert...
HANNAH MORE When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
PEARL S. BUCK To see evil and do nothing is evil.
JIM GENOVESE My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people su...
NANCY FARMER And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitt...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.
JONAH GOLDBERG Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.
GEORGE ELIOT Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us
CHARLES KINGSLEY Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
CHARLES KINGSLEY He that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good whic...
WALTER SCOTT What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within u...
RUTA SEPETYS Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is go...
MICHAEL O'BRIEN In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-...
KAHLIL GIBRAN There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
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AL DAVIS This puts entertainment officially on the map as a key market for the company.
AL DAVIS We came forward with everything we could to make everyone happy ? especially our fans ? and see if w...
AL DAVIS Bill was a great friend, a brilliant performer and an exceptional man. I say this with great admirat...
AL DAVIS If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the cham...
AL DAVIS Once a Raider, always a Raider.
AL DAVIS A myth is a story told in a historical context. You think of that name, Al Davis, and you think of a...
AL DAVIS We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. H...
EVAN DAVIS There's something great about being on location with a bunch of people - there's a camarader...
ESSIE DAVIS