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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who read more
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.
It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to
triumph.
It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to
triumph.
Evil beginning houres may end in good.
Evil beginning houres may end in good.
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell
Evil spelled backward is live.
Evil spelled backward is live.
Of two evils choose the least.
[Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]
Of two evils choose the least.
[Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
I have wrought great use out of evil tools.