Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.
– James Purdy
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- Best to live and love by the maxim that ‘silence in the face of evil is evil itself’, but when it’s evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself. – Criss Jami
- Evil is appealing, evil is attractive, evil is stylish. However, evil is still evil and it deserves to be treated just like that. – Lakshya Bharadwaj
- She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day. – James Purdy
- Take a second look at what you are about to do… A second look prevents a second chance. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things. – Jim George
- Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil. – Amit Abraham
- The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins. – Thomas Jefferson
- She’s had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil. – Agatha Christie
- When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil? – Nick Joaqun
- If you do not have a cause, then you have nothing at all! Get a cause and march with that cause! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!! – Minoru Furuya
- The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people. – John Green
- A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. – John Stuart Mill
- Friends will always be there for the party. REAL friends will be there after the party… – Bray Love
- I slump in my chair, thinking how a narcotic party of one is no party at all. – Elle Lothlorien
- Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished. – Rebecca Solnit
- For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach. – Greg Rucka
- Empathy allows us to enter the world of another. It allows us to take a mental vacation from ourselves. – Arthur P Ciaramicoli
- All you need do, Bernie,-she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, -œis present the truth as fiction. – James Purdy
- Never deprecate another person’s sufferings even when imaginary. – James Purdy
- There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence. – James Purdy
- If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell. – James Purdy
- And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all. – James Purdy
- He’s America in action -” opposed to quality. – James Purdy
- I have wrote my name in hell,- Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern. – James Purdy
- If, one day, you find yourself involved in a dirty game, keep in mind that you end up screwed unless you screw your opponent over. – Gina Wings
- She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally. – Laura Kaye
- Maybe that’s why I was so afraid of Sasha’s love. With him comes the remembering part that I was so good at forgetting.~Piper – ‘Breathe Me – Alexia Purdy
- My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him. – Erik Larson
- When you’re feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren’t thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week. – Robin McKinley
- Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self. – David Brooks
- A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what’s being said is the party line. – Colin Quinn
- As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I’m stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really. – Will Advise
- Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist’s only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life. – Isobelle Carmody
- There’s no such thing as an evil race, just evil circumstances that make people do evil things. – Stuart Hill
- It’s not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn’t evil, it’s just incredibly stupid. – Robert Jordan
- A thinking man never be a party man. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- It is God’s desire that every one of us is involved in serving Him with all our heart and soul – Sunday Adelaja
- We can’t play God.We can’t do this to kids.You’re evil, I’m evil.Everyone will die.No matter what.Let nature win. – James Dashner
- I only have two fingers left.I wrote the lies of my farewell with two fingers.That is the truth.We are evil.They are kids.We are evil. – James Dashner