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Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

Bob Riley

American politician

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

John Gay

English poet and playwright (1685-1732)

To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.

Aeschylus

ancient Athenian playwright

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Henry David Thoreau

American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817-1862)

We don’t defeat evil by becoming evil.

Nick Clooney

It’s okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that’s evil?

Glenn Danzig

American rock musician

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it’s up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.

Frank Luntz

American political consultant, author, and pollster

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)

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.

John Stuart Mill

British philosopher and political economis (1806-1873)

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Epictetus

Greek Stoic philosopher (c. 50-c. 138)

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