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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
-John Locke
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The Dread Of Evil Is A Much

John Locke
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
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When one has once accepted and absorbed evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. the ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate evil are not your own but those of evil.... evil is whatever distracts. evil knows of the good, but good does not know of evil. knowledge of oneself is something only evil has. one means that evil has is the dialogue.... one cannot pay evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.
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