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1 " Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?" " Is that including, or not including you? "
2 " Though some may see their shortcomings as the greatest evil from the pit of hell, while some throw invectives at God for bringing them into a cruel, problematic world. These shortcomings are transient, the greatest evil does its work and needs no interrogation, their invectives are just a waste of time, and the world is the most sweetest to those with a functional taste buds. "
― Michael Bassey Johnson
3 " I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of " Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid " dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business con "
4 " The greatest lie of the greatest evil is that it doesn't exist. "
― G. Norman Lippert , James Potter and the Morrigan Web (James Potter, #4)
5 " A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good. "
― Rikki Ducornet , The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade