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Heywood Hale Broun

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Edmund Burke

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

Albert Einstein

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

George Steiner

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour

Robert Joseph Bob Dole

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon-See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

Mary Wollstonecraft

No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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.

Edmund Burke

There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.

Jimmy Carter

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Thomas Hardy

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Ayn Rand

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

T. S. Eliot

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.

King Edward the Third

Evil to him who evil thinks.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

Lewis B. Smedes

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

Marquis de Sade

Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.

Albert Einstein

The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Hesiod

Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Buddha

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Tacitus

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.

Maitri Upanishads

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Phocion

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing

German proverb

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

George

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

Mark Twain

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Dorothe Deluzy

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad

Sir Walter Raleigh

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Val Peters

Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating.

Origen

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

Laertius Diogenes

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Theodore Roosevelt

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Anonymous

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness..

Charles W. Chesnutt

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Rick Moranis

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

Edmund Burke

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

Aesop

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Max Lerner

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

William Penn

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

Bodie Thoene

Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.

Homer

Evil deeds do not prosper the slow man catches up with the swift.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.

Laertius Diogenes

Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead.

SHAKS.: _Jul. C?sar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

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

Jewish Proverb

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Woody Allen

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Mike Gill

Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.

Dag Hammarskjld

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

Buddha

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Lucan

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Austin Powers International Man of Mystery

Dr. Evil I demand the sum... OF 1 MILLION DOLLARS.

Heini Arnold

As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever.

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of ever

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere 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 bein

Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love.

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil.

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

Evil is relative???You can???t hang a sign on it. You can???t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

He that cannot decidedly say, No, when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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

Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Thinking evil is making evil.

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

"Evil! You are evil! Evil!" -- Gypsy

"Evil! You are evil! Evil!" -- Gypsy

"Evil! She's evil!" -- Joel Robinson

"Evil! She's evil!" -- Joel Robinson

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

"You are the evil. The evil must be destroyed!" Kirk to Landru

"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil." -Ghandi

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

"Evil is on the loose." - Arthur "Oh, Evil IS baaaad!" - The Tick

"Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil."

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

The evil that we know is best.

Nothing this evil EVER dies!

"What do you want from us? We're evil! EVIL!!!"

Evil draws men together.

They aren't evil...just stupid.

The end excuses any evil.

Matrimony is the root of all evil.

I'm making a career of evil.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

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

If it screams it's not food......yet. [[Evil Grin]]

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Jellybeans and windex are essentially evil.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.