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Tuesday, 8 July 2008
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"There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue." (Burke, Edmund - Tolerance)

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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!
But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome
Evil be to him who evil thinks.
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.
Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
Evil spelled backward is live.
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-
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.
My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.
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.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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.
No evil shall happen to the just.
-- Bible | Evil
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
Of two evils, choose neither.
Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]
-- Bible | Evil
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.
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
The love of evil is the root of all money.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
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.
There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
-- Plato | Evil
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
There's small choice in rotten apples.
They that know no evil will suspect none.
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.
To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.