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• To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Good And Evil, Accomplices

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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

  August Strindberg

  Beautiful, Ugly, Weak

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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

  Oscar Wilde

  World, Criminal Mind, Hell

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.476, Wordsworth Editions

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• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Judging, Suffering

  "Enchiridion" by Saint Augustine, (Ch. 27), (c. 420).

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• There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Worst Enemy, Hatred

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

  Brent Weeks

  Dark, Simple, Depth

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• There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.

  Juliet Marillier

  Dark, Light, World

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.464, Macmillan

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  The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Integrity, Patriotic

  "The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.

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

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• Evil, be thou my good.

  John Milton

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 110 (1667)

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• The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fear, Truth, Tyrants

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• Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heart, Imagination, Literature

  "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy". "Esquire" Magazine, May 1961.

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• When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life Changing, Men, Hatred

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• Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strength, Peace, War

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Wisdom, Men

  1599 Antony. Julius Caesar, act 3, sc.2, l.74-86.

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• There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

  Ovid

  Form, Thousand, Remedy

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• As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

  Robert Southey

  Necessary Evil

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• Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

  Blaise Pascal

  Infinite, Easy, Form

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

  Edmund Burke

  Honesty, Integrity, War

  Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) See Edmund Burke 28; Mill 18

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

  W. H. Auden

  Bed, Tables, Criminal Mind

  "Herman Melville" l. 17 (1939)

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• When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who
  are virtuous for virtue's sake.

  Sallust

  Fall, Wicked, Sake

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• Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

  Simone Weil

  Tyrants, Politics, Duty

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.71, Psychology Press

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• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Sad, Religious

  Pensees no. 894 (1670 ed.)

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• There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, May, Circumstances

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.231, e-artnow

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• Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

  Samuel Johnson

  Power, Littles

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.149, Univ of California Press

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