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~ Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it. ~

T. T. Munger

~ He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. ~

Francis Bacon

~ The problem of evil...Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it? ~

Sir William Temple

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

Lord Acton

~ One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. ~

Edmund Burke

~ Nothing is evil which is according to nature. ~

Marcus Aurelius Antonius

~ On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends. ~

John Gay

~ All evils are equal when they are extreme. ~

Pierre Corneille

~ What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. ~

Henry Ford

~ The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. ~

Albert Camus

~ It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons. ~

John Christian Bovee

~ Evil is obvious only in retrospect. ~

Gloria Steinem

~ Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room. ~

Blaise Pascal

~ Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity - clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating. ~

John Ruskin

~ Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection ~

Samuel Johnson

~ It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions. ~

Menander of Athens

~ For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. ~

Robert Benchley

~ It is good to maintain and cherish life; it is evil to destroy and to cheek life ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. ~

Titus Maccius Plautus

~ Lack of money is the root of all evil. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. ~

Jim Morrison

~ Today evil spirits are seen as negativity which floats around the Earth in large quantities. ~

Scott Cunningham

~ No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. ~

Seneca

~ If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture. ~

Audrey Foris

~ Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ~

C. S. Lewis

~ Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things. ~

David Ogilvy

~ History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. ~

Malcolm Muggeridge

~ Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. ~

Anne Baxter

~ I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself. ~

Rod Serling

~ To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. ~

William Penn

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