Sam Hancock

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“Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

tags: good-and-evil, inspirational

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“Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

tags: bravery, courage, darkness-and-light, good-and-evil, goodness, inspiration

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“You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.”
― A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth

tags: good-and-evil, life, self

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“The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.”
― Raul Ramos y Sanchez, Pancho Land

tags: bureaucracy, good-and-evil

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“Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.”
― Dean Koontz

tags: good-and-evil

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