False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
Evil events from evil causes spring.
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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