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The prevalence of evil is the darkest and most frightening mystery of the universe.

— Morris West Eminence (1998)

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Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

The Clowns of God (1981)

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

The Clowns of God (1981)

In Switzerland everything that is not forbidden is legal.

Masterclass (1988)

Religion is the good you do in the bad times.

The Ringmaster (1991)

Of all the animals in creation, politicians have the shortest memories.

The Ringmaster (1991)

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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.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

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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