In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil
– Robert S McNamara
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- As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I’m stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really. – Will Advise
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- There’s no such thing as an evil race, just evil circumstances that make people do evil things. – Stuart Hill
- Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them. – Alan Cohen
- It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. – Margaret Mead
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- I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it’s all the same genre. – Don Roff
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- Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. – Leo Tolstoy
- It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order – and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order. – Douglas R Hofstadter
- Freedom without order leads to chaos. We must have order around our freedom. It is God’s Word that sets the boundaries for our freedom. – DeBorrah K Ogans
- If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul. – Russell Kirk
- In order to be effective, be responsive. In order to be responsive, listen. – Sharon Weil
- The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things – Baruch Spinoza
- We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are. – Judith Butler
- Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves. – Clancy Martin
- Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. – Albert Camus
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- Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language. – David Brooks
- I stopped living a long time ago, in order to simply exist. Now I am trying to leave existence, in order to step into nihility. – Lionel Suggs
- If your house ain’t in order, you ain’t in order. It is so much easier to be out there than right here. – Toni Cada Bambara
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