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~ The blind fanaticism of one foolish honest man may cause more evil than the united efforts of twenty rogues. ~

Grimm, Friedrich, Baron Von

~ The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it. ~

Albert Einstein

~ False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. ~

Socrates

~ Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. ~

Daniel Defoe

~ To remain clean and worthy, one must stay positively and conclusively away from the devil's territory, avoiding the least approach toward evil. Satan leaves his fingerprints. ~

Spencer W. Kimball

~ Evil requires the sanction of the victim. ~

Ayn Rand

~ Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. ~

Roy Hattersley

~ Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil. ~

Jean de la Fontaine

~ The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ~

Lord Acton

~ A polite devil is more agreeable than a rude saint. ~

Lebanese Proverb

~ All magic, all witchcraft, depends on the Devil, and is fundamentally evil. ~

MONTAGUE SUMMERS

~ One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. ~

Thomas Brackett Reed

~ Man is deeply vulnerable when faced with overwhelming evil. Instead of consolidating his energy to fight it, he wastes valuable time and effort puzzling over it, insisting it is not, cannot possibly be, what it seems. ~

Konnilyn G. Feig

~ Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it. ~

Arthur E. Waite

~ 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 F. Kennedy

~ All evils are equal when they are extreme. ~

Pierre Corneille

~ Laws cannot prevent extravagance; and this perhaps is not always an evil to the public. A shilling spent idly by a fool may be picked up by a wiser person, who knows better what to do with it; it is, therefore, not lost. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. ~

Theodore Roosevelt

~ Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings. ~

Helen Keller

~ Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. ~

John Henry Newman

~ All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. ~

Scott Alexander

~ However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. ~

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

~ Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes. ~

Niels Henrik Abel

~ So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist. ~

T. S. Eliot

~ Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy. ~

Bible

~ We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Hell is empty and all the devils are here. ~

William Shakespeare

~ The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself. ~

Sir Thomas Browne

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