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~ All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. ~

Edmund Burke

~ No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. ~

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

~ Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. ~

Plato

~ If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. ~

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

~ Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. ~

Haile Selassie

~ Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ~

Aristotle

~ Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ~

Aristotle

~ The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man. ~

Albert Einstein

~ The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. ~

Edmund Burke

~ Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. ~

Baltasar Gracian

~ Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak. ~

August Strindberg

~ Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. ~

Samuel Butler

~ The root of the evil... lay not in corruption but in the system which bred it, the alliance between industrialists and politicians which produced benefits in the form of tariffs, public lands, and federal subsidies ~

Samuel P. Hays

~ There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. ~

Adlai Stevenson

~ For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. ~

Dante Alighieri

~ Neutral men are the devil's allies. ~

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

~ Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts ~

Tibetan Proverb

~ It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ~

St. Augustine of Hippo

~ The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones. ~

Belzer Rabbi

~ Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes from society. ~

Daniel Webster

~ 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

~ Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. ~

Branch Rickey

~ It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone. ~

William Blake

~ Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. ~

Plato

~ God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience. ~

Rabindranath Tagore

~ The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. ~

Hannah Arendt

~ The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. ~

Diogenes Laertius

~ The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. ~

Ayn Rand

~ If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. ~

Henry Fielding

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