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"It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost." Stephen King 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." Edmund Burke 4.9 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke 4.88970588235294 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato 4.81818181818182 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." Siddhartha Buddha 4.8 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." Albert Einstein 4.79611650485437 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Life -- the way it really is -- is a battle not between bad and good but between bad and worse." Joseph Brodsky 4.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." Socrates 4.71428571428571 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Henry Thoreau 4.6551724137931 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." Blaise Pascal 4.62264150943396 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable." GK Chesterton 4.6 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before." Theodore Roosevelt 4.6 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency." Theodore Roosevelt 4.57142857142857 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil." Plato 4.53846153846154 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them." Nachman of Bratslav 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men." Plato 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death." Plato 4.42857142857143 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." Anne Frank 4.41666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil." Aristotle 4.27272727272727 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." Mae West 4.27272727272727 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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