• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.9 · 25 votes · 3 reads

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• Evil spelled backward is live.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 11 votes · 82 reads

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• He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.8 · 22 votes · 29 reads

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• I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.2 · 6 votes · 31 reads

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• I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.2 · 59 votes · 0 reads

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

  

  Charles Darwin

  ScientistEnglish1809 · 19th century

  3.3 · 62 votes · 20 reads

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• It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.8 · 7 votes · 149 reads

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• Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 190 reads

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• Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.7 · 9 votes · 89 reads

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• Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  3.4 · 31 votes · 149 reads

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

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 180 reads

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• No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 57 votes · 123 reads

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• No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.7 · 15 votes · 138 reads

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• No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.4 · 27 votes · 129 reads

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• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 0 reads

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• One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.4 · 41 votes · 42 reads

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• Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.0 · 6 votes · 89 reads

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• 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.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  4.5 · 5 votes · 130 reads

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• Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.3 · 55 votes · 174 reads

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• The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  4.5 · 40 votes · 181 reads

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• The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.1 · 52 votes · 190 reads

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

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.9 · 57 votes · 198 reads

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• The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 7 reads

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• The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.6 · 25 votes · 86 reads

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• Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.7 · 8 votes · 47 reads

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• There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.5 · 43 votes · 1 reads

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• There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  4.2 · 33 votes · 10 reads

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• There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.0 · 33 votes · 40 reads

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• There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.2 · 46 votes · 181 reads

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• There is only one good - knowledge; and only one evil - ignorance.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.6 · 44 votes · 114 reads

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• There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.1 · 6 votes · 171 reads

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• There's small choice in rotten apples.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.8 · 9 votes · 58 reads

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• They that know no evil will suspect none.

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  Ben Jonson

  PoetEnglish1573 · 16th century

  5.0 · 61 votes · 186 reads

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• This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.7 · 64 votes · 127 reads

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• Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 40 votes · 171 reads

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• We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.8 · 46 votes · 190 reads

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• What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.5 · 13 votes · 86 reads

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• When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

  

  Mae West

  ComedianAmerican1893 · 19th century

  3.7 · 55 votes · 115 reads

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• Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

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  John Donne

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  4.3 · 47 votes · 154 reads

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