We must as second best...take the least of the evils.
Aristotle
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr.
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Theodore Roosevelt
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
Charles W. Chesnutt
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Linus Torvalds
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
Maria Callas
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
Amy Lowell
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Simone Weil
The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail.
Hyman George Rickover
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
Oliver Goldsmith
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people.
Henry Brooks Adams
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
Gloria Steinem
Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
Jean jacques Rousseau
Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
Titus Livy
I am a precious evil.
Anthony Beal
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
Evelyn Underhill
Of two evils, choose the prettier.
Carolyn Wells
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Leigh Hunt
Of two evils we must always choose the least.
Thomas a Kempis
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Robert Francis Kennedy
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
Joseph Roux
The evil that we know is best.
Titus Maccius Plautus
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Lewis B. Smedes
Imaginary evils are incurable.
Marie Von Ebner eschenbach
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
Brooks Atkinson
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense).
King Edward the Third
Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
Robert Southey
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
William Bernbach
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
If there is True Evil in this World, it Lies in the Heart of Mankind.
Edward Morrison
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw
Thinking evil is making evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no evil in the world without a remedy.
Jacopo Sannazaro
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
William Shakespeare
But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.
Edgar Allan Poe
If money is the root of all evil, then why do we have to have jobs?
Matt Groening
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
Isak Dinesen
There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.
J. K. Rowling
Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.
Chinese Proverb
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
Publilius Syrus
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt
No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
Sir Philip Sidney
Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.
Joel Rosenberg
Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
Charles Kingsley
I had heard all the stories about Eddie. But I don't see evidence of it here. He is not Dr. Evil. He is not the way he is painted.
Glenn Roberts
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods.
Irving Kristol
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
Doug Horton
Love of the world is the root of all evil.
Abu Muhammad
Marriage, if truth be told (of this be sure), An evil is - but one we must endure.
Menander Of Athens
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
David M. Ogilvy
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato the Elder
These are great and evil events, along with the Holocaust, which are offensive to all of humanity.
Dawud Walid
He sees it as a battle between good and evil. He sees it as the evil being the acts of individuals, not the acts of any religion or affiliation with any religion.
Genpeter Pace
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.
Antisthenes
The community needs better education to see how you can make a difference for good or for evil.
Chris Garrett
He's almost become a cartoon character. He's viewed as the most evil villain in baseball history.
Dan Holmes
Cocaine is like really evil coffee.
Courtney Love
No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
Knut Hamsun
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. Auden
We can overcome evil with greater good.
Laura Bush
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Sometimes you do evil to prevent greater evil.
Theodore Postol
I thought they were being held against their will, ... these people are evil.
Louise Palanker
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
David Sarnoff
Speak no evil of an absent friend. (Non male loquare absenti amico).
Titus Maccius Plautus
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim Morrison
It's a choice of the lesser evil.
Volodymyr Fesenko
Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?'
Johann K. Lavater
A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
Sparky Anderson
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
Joseph Marie De Maistre
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Max Lerner
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.
Veda Upanishads
Roy Keane is Damien, the devil incarnate. He's evil. Even in training.
Ryan Giggs
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
Benjamin Whichcote
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at our own table.
Herman Melville
You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.
Louis Farrakhan
Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts.
Tibetan Proverb
Going into debt is never easy and, in your case, going deeper into debt is a necessary evil.
Greg Zandlo
Evil cannot prevail over good. How much more can we take?
Kathy Valentine
We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?
Dorothe Deluzy
Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
Louise Bogan
This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today.
Tony Blair
Anti-terrorism is a fight between justice and evil, civilization and savagery.
Tang Jiaxuan
Those who persist in accusing the school of criminal and evil conduct are turning their backs on the facts.
Sanford Bishop
I believe that more than ever before there are evil forces round about us.
Anita Bryant
They are doing this to people and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This is an evil practice, and I want them to acknowledge it. I want them to acknowledge that what they did to me was wrong.
Maher Arar
Wildlife management is a necessary evil.
Bart Semcer
He knows what he's doing; I think it's evil. I think it's the most devious thing I've ever heard somebody do.
Lisa Johnson's
When you put something out there like 'Don't Be Evil,' you get held to a higher standard.
David Vise
I wouldn't say Jamie is a evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil, and I'm not sure he's a genius.
Adam Savage
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George Santayana
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Andre Gide
He's an evil guy who's going to do bad things, and we know it.
David Winston
A great book is like great evil.
Callimachus
God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
It's one of those evil words in design.
Ralph Gilles
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
Jeremy Bentham
That there are some people on earth who are so wicked and so evil that nothing can be done but to confront them.
Alexander Downer
I don't know what it is about him and April Fool's. I think he's evil and we should put him in a home.
Tom Johnston
I'm so evil... it's not funny.
Patricia Velazquez
I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
Harmon Killebrew
Evil societies always kill their consciences.
James Farmer
These people are evil.
Louise Palanker
I don't know what was cooking in that house. The atmosphere for evil was there.
Bart Adams
Well, it's very boring. It's very boring. I guess I view it as a necessary evil.
Kenny Wallace
Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.
Raisa M. Gorbachev
He has become almost evil.
Daniel Horowitz
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
John Stuart Mill
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
John Rawls
We did the right thing, we did the only thing. We stopped a great evil.
George Robertson
A god who created man "after his own image", and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him.
Johann Most
We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
Ossie Davis
His face looked kind of lifeless. It looked evil.
Gary Joe Kinne
CONDOLE, v.i. To show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.
Ambrose Bierce
No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly.
Protagoras
I'm suggesting that [Bush] is Saddam Hussein, the evil-doer.
Karen Finley
They're evil twins of one another.
Louis Menand
There's a windfall ... But that's not evil.
Lawrence Goldstein
We live in a world where there is enormous potential for evil.
Gerhard Weinberg
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good....
St. Thomas Aquinas
No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands.
Hitopadesa
It is our obligation to free them from the clutches of evil, evil that has no boundaries.
Gideon Ezra
I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.
Harry Belafonte
I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.
Whittaker Chambers
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Jerry Garcia
A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
William Penn
Truth will prevail over evil. We feel we did our best.
Linda Mcglade
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
Konrad Lorenz
The evil men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.
Julius Caesar
Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. Auden
See No Evil. We had support in the intelligence sectors.
Stephen Gaghan
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Maria Montessori
Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse.
Nicolas Boileau
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
Morris Cohen
I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.
Christopher Walken
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
The Belzer Rabbi
This is the jealousy, ... of the followers of the evil god Seth.
Zahi Hawass
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
Ethiopian Proverb
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
Emanuel Swedenborg
A lot of us do think Microsoft is pretty evil.
Eric Raymond
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