Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
—Oliver Goldsmith
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
—Ovid
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
—Plato
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
—Simone Weil
The end excuses any evil.
—Sophocles
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
—Theodore Roosevelt
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
—Alfred North Whitehead
Flowers… put up no resistance to attack, suffer evil rather than inflicting it, imitate carnal love, multiply without fighting, and die without complaining.… They have realized the dream of Buddha: to desire nothing, to tolerate everything, to be absorbed in oneself to the depths of the unconscious will.
—J. Rambosson
Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that have made it possible for evil to triumph.
—Haile Selassie
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
—George Bernard Shaw
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
—André Gide