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~ Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. ~

Horace Mann

~ Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile. ~

Christy Mathewson

~ Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance -- these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. ~

Isaiah Berlin

~ Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. ~

William Shakespeare

~ Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds. ~

Virgil

~ No matter how noble the objective of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion - it is an evil government. ~

Eric Hoffer

~ The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~

Edmund Burke

~ Later, you will regret and repent - you fool! Why are you engrossed in evil-mindedness and skepticism? ~

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

~ You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge. ~

Bulgarian Proverb

~ The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. ~

Lucan

~ Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. ~

Sir Thomas Browne

~ By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. ~

Winston Churchill

~ The devil himself is good when he is pleased. ~

Thomas Fuller

~ At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done ~

Simone Weil

~ When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it's not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them. ~

Paul Goodman

~ It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. ~

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

~ He who does not punish evil commands it to be done. ~

Leonardo Da Vinci

~ QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the United States Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House; in the House of Representatives, of the Speaker and the devil. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ 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

~ He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine ~

Charles Darwin

~ Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. ~

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

~ Now, my evil sense of alienation is eliminated, since I have heard the Praises of the Lord with my ears. ~

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

~ Evil cannot be conquered by wishing. ~

Lloyd Chudley Alexander

~ Evils draw men together. ~

Aristotle

~ Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. ~

Martin Luther King Jr 1929

~ Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ~

Louis Dembitz Brandeis

~ Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded. ~

Julius K. Nyerere

~ Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception. ~

Bodhidharma

~ History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity. ~

David C. McCullough

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