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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
View quotes by George Santayana
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
View quotes by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.
View quotes by John Newton
For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.
View quotes by Saint Augustine
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
View quotes by Thomas Hardy
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
View quotes by Hannah Arendt
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
View quotes by Margaret Mead
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.
View quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
View quotes by Quintilian
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
View quotes by David Ogilvy
Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on. [on the London terror attacks, 7th July 2005]
View quotes by Jan Peter Balkenende
Think not lightly of evil, saying, 'It will not come to me.'
Drop by drop is the water pot filled.
Likewise, the fool, gathering it little by little, fills himself with evil.
View quotes by Buddha
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
View quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
View quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
View quotes by Jim Morrison
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
View quotes by Tacitus
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
View quotes by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Evil be to him who should evil think.
View quotes by Edward II
They that know no evil will suspect none.
View quotes by Ben Jonson
Dialogue is a necessary evil.
View quotes by Fred Zinnemann
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