Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it
becomes stronger.
[Lat., Omne malum read more

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it
becomes stronger.
[Lat., Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum fit
pleurumque robustius.]

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil
spirit of man.

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil
spirit of man.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from read more

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
[Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit read more

Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
[Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.]

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the
world, why, as though living in the read more

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the
world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to
ordinances,
(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments
and doctrines of men?

From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.

From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.