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  Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, War, 4th Of July

  Common Sense (1776)

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• The lesser of two evils is still evil.

  Solomon

  Popular Vote, Two, Voting

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• All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Night, Gone, Instant

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• Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men

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• Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inward, Driven, Cunning

  James Russell Lowell, Maria F. Rosetti (1872). “Review of The Shadow of Dante”, p.201

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• With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.

  Washington Irving

  Men, Individual, Best Of Me

  Washington Irving (1859). “The works of Washington Irving”, p.402

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• All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

  Henry Adams

  People, Taxation, Heavy

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• The sins we do, people behold with optics,
  Which shew them ten times more than common vices,
  And often multiply them.

  John William Fletcher

  People, Optics, Vices

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• Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Cooperation, Moral, Protest

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• Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

  Robert Southey

  Mean, Men, Soul

  Robert Southey (1831). “Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society”, p.221

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• An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

  Quintilian

  Opportunity, Want, Doers

  "De Institutione Oratoria" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 244-45., 1922.

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• Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Flower, Leaving

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.34

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• The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

  Robert Frost

  Garden, Snakes, Stood Up

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.246, Everyman's Library

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

  William Penn

  May, Moral, Tyranny

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Struggle, Love Is

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• Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspiring, Education, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

  David Rockefeller

  Family, Believe, Evil Government

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House

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• Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.

  Amit Abraham

  Speak No Evil, Speak

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• When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Choices, Alternatives, Mixtures

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• Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

  Andre Gide

  Change, Struggle, Literature

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• We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Time, Struggle, Knowledge

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• If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Would Be, Earth, Moral

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• The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Lying, Doe

  Maria Montessori, Gerald Lee Gutek (2004). “The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method”, p.116, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

  Henny Youngman

  Crazy, Drinking, Reading

  Quoted in Rocky Mountain News, 15 July 1994

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