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Alan Scott: I shall shed my light over dark evil.
For the dark things cannot stand the light,
The light of the Green Lantern!

— Alfred Bester

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The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

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Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.

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We always do what’s natural, only sometimes we shouldn’t do it.

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The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

The Demolished Man (1953)

Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

Edward Teller

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

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