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To do no evil is good, to intend none better.


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GEORGE MACDONALD God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
SAINT AUGUSTINE God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
SIMON WIESENTHAL Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are...
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ANUJ SOMANY They that know no evil will suspect none.
BEN JONSON You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE “My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.”
ROSS ELDER The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge i...
VERONICA ROTH Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
WILLIAM BLAKE If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE Suicide thought is a negative force that needs to be overcome with a positive force,positive thinkin...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is an option for the unwise,but for the wise suicide has got no room to be given an option.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is never the solution to life's problems but hope.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When the mind is filled with positivity the thoughts of suicide becomes virtually non existing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.
CHINESE PROVERB How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?
JOHN JANZEN [Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their ‘to do’...
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FIONA WOOD There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one
EURIPIDES I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fur...
EURIPIDES Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?
ANTHONY BURGESS Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
UNSOURCED, MISATTRIBUTED TO MAYA ANGELOU Be the good in others, and you will see the good in others. Be the evil in others and you will see t...
PHILIP T. M. Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and ...
STEVEN WEINBERG The sound quality is as good, if not better, than the regular phone. I use a hearing aid and have no...
GERRY WALDRON 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON The most perplexing form of evil, and especially so for all idealists, is that kind of evil which co...
WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER Far, far below, red liquid bubbled. Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? None of the posibilities were good.
RICK RIORDAN Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
ATTRIBUTED TO MAYA AANGELOU Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.
CARLTON SMITH Never put down to evil intent what can equally well be explained by thoughtlessness.
HERSCHEL M ROTHMAN Be the good in the world, and you will see the good in the world. Be the evil in the world and you w...
PHILIP T. M. Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmute...
MENCIUS All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil wor...
ROBERT CECIL Sometimes it is better to fight evil with another type of evil..
OLASOT There is no possible source of evil except good.
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BILL LAKE With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th...
STEVEN WEINBERG I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing inn...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
EDMUND BURKE There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.
J. K. ROWLING With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good peopl...
STEVEN WEINBERG Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they t...
POPE FRANCIS We do not intend to assemble airplanes during this strike. No one benefits from a strike.
CHARLES BICKERS As good as it is to do something good, it is evil to brag about it based on the wrong reasons.
NICNICLOUISIANA They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth go...
BIBLE If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of ev...
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NATASHA LITTLE There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
J.K. ROWLING There is no good and evil, there is only power... and those too weak to seek it.
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.
WILLIAM BLAKE There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it. 
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Evil becomes good to the conscience that is immuned to evil.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
STEPHEN KING I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. N...
PHILIP K. DICK I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it doe...
MAHATMA GANDHI All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE NO” is a complete sentence. It does not require an explanation to follow. You can truly answer som...
SHARON E. RAINEY However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
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ALBERT EINSTEIN No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT To see evil and do nothing is evil.
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