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"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever."
Clarence Darrow
"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."
Aristotle
"Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them."
Nachman of Bratslav
"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil."
Plato
"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."
Siddhartha Buddha
"It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost."
Stephen King
"It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
Anne Frank
"Life -- the way it really is -- is a battle not between bad and good but between bad and worse."
Joseph Brodsky
"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable."
GK Chesterton
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal
"No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."
Plato
"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men."
Plato
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
Albert Einstein
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
Henry Thoreau
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
Socrates
"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
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