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To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.


Claudius

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JIM GENOVESE For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
SIMON WIESENTHAL 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...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT 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...
T.S. ELIOT All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.
CARLTON SMITH Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN 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 All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE Evil will win if good people do nothing.
P.C. CAST The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
ROBERT BROWNING The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
EDMUND BURKE All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
EPICETUS There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
CHARLES DICKENS There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
EPICTETUS To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
CLAUDIUS When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbag...
NICK JOAQUíN There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil ca...
EPICURUS In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
THOMAS CARLYLE Nothing in nature is evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. I...
ANNE BISHOP All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing...
EDMUND BURKE There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one
EURIPIDES Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedne...
BOB RILEY Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do not...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
HESIOD Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge i...
VERONICA ROTH Life's irony;What a miserable world we live in,for the good men who know how to govern well do nothi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evi...
BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer
ROBERT LYND There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.
ROBERT STAUGHTON LYND Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
WILLIAM BLAKE If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and ...
JOHN CONNOLLY Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.
CHINESE PROVERB If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be noth...
PAUL BLOOM Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
PLUTARCH Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmute...
MENCIUS We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted ...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Sometimes it is better to fight evil with another type of evil..
OLASOT Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more o...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I'm stupid, and not evil. And I worship n...
WILL ADVISE Evil becomes good to the conscience that is immuned to evil.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) 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 Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and ...
STEVEN WEINBERG It is midnight in the hard part of town. The mask is itching like it always does. The ragged end of ...
STEVE VERNON What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, env...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: env...
BUDDHA There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
SAINT AMBROSE No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY The most perplexing form of evil, and especially so for all idealists, is that kind of evil which co...
WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
WILL DURANT The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would ne...
ITALO CALVINO Money is neither good nor evil,but good men makes money good & evil men makes money evil.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Nothing is impossible on 'Game of Thrones.'
FAYE MARSAY Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting e...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting e...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Give evil nothing to oppose
and it will disappear by itself.
LAO TZU War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
TED NUGENT I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
SRI CHINMOY Good to evil seems evil
RAY BRADBURY Oh, it's nothing to do with Iraq. It is evil ideology. They are against our society. They are agains...
ROBERT FISK Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and...
ISOBELLE CARMODY I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing inn...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
AYN RAND There are two evil futurities and one good. A miserable future existence is evil; and annihilation, ...
ADONIRAM JUDSON Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?
ANTHONY BURGESS When a person denies his conscience for too long, it can become seared. That person becomes suscepti...
HENRY HON With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th...
STEVEN WEINBERG Evil is appealing, evil is attractive, evil is stylish. However, evil is still evil and it deserves ...
LAKSHYA BHARADWAJ Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil wor...
ROBERT CECIL It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single at...
GERARD DE NERVAL With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
DAISAKU IKEDA Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
JOHN HEYWOOD Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.
MICHAEL VENTURA What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing...
LIBBA BRAY Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is go...
MICHAEL O'BRIEN Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life.
D.H. LAWRENCE Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while in...
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder...
RICK RIORDAN The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shrugged
AYN RAND There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is share...
ERICH FROMM Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they t...
POPE FRANCIS Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIáN We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN Never put down to evil intent what can equally well be explained by thoughtlessness.
HERSCHEL M ROTHMAN With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good peopl...
STEVEN WEINBERG As good as it is to do something good, it is evil to brag about it based on the wrong reasons.
NICNICLOUISIANA You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If eve...
RICK YANCEY Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great or great evil without bringing about more ...
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