The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
The world is a dangerous place to live
Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!
This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land.
Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.
You evil thing, why do you haunt me?
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.
Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
or simply:
