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#1

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

tags: behavior, character, cruelty, weakness

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#2

“Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

tags: evil

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#3

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
― Plato

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#4

“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
― Plato

tags: laws, people

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#5

“If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.”
― Sophocles, Ajax

tags: evil, fate, pain

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#6

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: dangerous, evil, people, world

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#7

“Man is the cruelest animal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: animals, cruelty, evil, man

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#8

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

tags: cruelty, evil, humanity, kindness

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#9

“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: evil, good-intentions, morality

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#10

“Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....”
― W.H. Auden, Collected Poems

tags: evil, familiarity

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#11

“And empty words are evil.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

tags: emotions, empty, evil, feelings, homer, humor, inspiration, love, romance, sadness, words

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#12

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

tags: evil, inclusiveness, truth

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#13

“Evil is a choice one makes, not a natural state of being.”
― Morgan Rhodes, Rebel Spring

tags: choices, evil, nature

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#14

“The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

tags: destruction, evil, pride, recklessness, ruin, tyranny, vanity

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#15

“The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)”
― C.G. Jung

tags: evil, sadism

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#16

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever”
― Nicholas Sparks

tags: love, nicholas-sparks, romance, the-notebook

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#17

“When love is not madness it is not love.”
― Pedro Calderon de la Barca

tags: love, romance

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#18

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: kissing, love, romance

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#19

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#20

“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

tags: abuse, age, body, destruction, pain, posttraumatic, psychology, psychology-quotes, ptsd, rage, relationships, society, suffering, threat, trauma

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#21

“You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: abuse, children, depression, kids, love, parents, sadness

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#22

“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.”
― Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It"

tags: a-child-called-it, abuse, carefree, child-abuse, childhood, nightmares, soul

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#23

“The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: child, criticism, memory, verbal-abuse, words

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#24

“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, abuser, abusers, attack-on-character, attacking-people, backlash, break-the-silence, child-sexual-abuse, child-sexual-abuse-survivor, crazy, credibility, denial, false-memories, false-memory-myth, false-memory-syndrome-campaign, healing-from-abuse, hysterical, incest, insane, just-tell, lack-of-accountability, lying, perpetrator, perpetrators, pschological-abuse, rape-culture, rape-myths, rape-survivor, secrecy, sexual-abuse, sexual-assault, sexual-violence, survivor, survivors, unstable, victimized, victimizing

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#25

“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of adaptation. She must find a way to preserve a sense of trust in people who are untrustworthy, safety in a situation that is unsafe, control in a situation that is terrifyingly unpredictable, power in a situation of helplessness. Unable to care for or protect herself, she must compensate for the failures of adult care and protection with the only means at her disposal, an immature system of psychological defenses.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

tags: abuse-survivors, abused-child, abusive-parents, betrayal, betrayal-trauma, child-abuse, complex-ptsd, coping, defense-mechanism, helpelessness, out-of-control, overwhelmed, overwhelming, parental-abuse, personality, personality-disorders, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, powerlessness, psychological-defence, ptsd, terrifying, trauma, traumatic-experiences, traumatized, trust, unsafe, untrustworthy

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#26

“The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.”
― Carl Sagan quoting Kenneth V. Lanning

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#27

“Mind control is built on lies and manipulation of attachment needs.”
― Valerie Sinason, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

tags: attachment, deprivation-of-rights, dissociative-identity-disorder, lies, manipulation, mind-control, operant-conditioning, ritual-abuse, torture, trauma-bonding

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#28

“The real world is where the monsters are.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: monsters, reality, world

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