The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is
for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. --Elie
Wiesel
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. --Martin
Luther King, Jr.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or
foe, that lures him to evil ways. --Buddha
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. --Plato
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is
ignorance. --Herodotus
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our
bed and eats at our own table. --W. H. Auden
Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have
to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his
own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as
he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place. --Pope
Francis
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. --Aristotle
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing
refusal to be oneself. --Soren Kierkegaard
Evil is whatever distracts. --Franz Kafka
I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully
conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also
know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they
understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but
we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them. --John Bradshaw
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing,
cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. --Scott Alexander
It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil,
unless we shall also do good. --St. Jerome
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil
man is the love of injustice. --John Rawls
The belief that there is only one truth, and that
oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. --Max
Born
I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power. --Patricia Cornwell
