• wombat said on Feb 28, 2008....

       “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

   Edmund Burke quotes (British Statesman and Philosopher, 1729-1797)

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• Fallyn said on Feb 28, 2008....

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman:

  It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.

  
  

  this is my favorite.
  

  
  
  
  

• TinSoldier said on Feb 28, 2008....

  Another source that I'm browsing. I'll post my favorites later, but I really like this one by Rod Serling:
  
  
  I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.
  
  
  
  
  

• kelly said on Feb 29, 2008....

  Wow, I thought most of those were great.  Nietzsche's stuck out a bit for me, though:
  
  
  "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

• kelly said on Feb 29, 2008....

  Wow, I thought most of those were great.  Nietzsche's stuck out a bit for me, though:
  
  
  "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

• kelly said on Feb 29, 2008....

  Wow, I thought most of those were great.  Nietzsche's stuck out a bit for me, though:
  
  
  "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

• uniquely-ironic said on Feb 29, 2008....

  Cicero.  It's simple and true.

• Expendable said on Feb 29, 2008....

  I like H. L. Mencken's "It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake." and Mae West's "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."

  Oscar Wilde got it right when he said, "We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."

  
  But the best I think is Blaise Pascal's "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

• coptips4u said on Feb 29, 2008....

  i liked the one kelly liked so much hehehe

• BrotherClaude said on Feb 29, 2008....

  “Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion."

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• TinSoldier said on Feb 29, 2008....

  kelly -- heh. I liked that one too. I used "gazing into the abyss" from that quote as my user title on that forum.
  
  Let's see if I can remember the ones I liked best last night.
  
  
  I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. -- Blaise Pascal
  
  Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal
  
  The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. -- Cicero
  
  We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice. -- Hierocles
  
  Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin
  
  The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -- Joseph Conrad
  
  No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
  
  Man is neither angel nor brute, and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the brute. -- Blaise Pascal
  
  

  But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil. -- Robert Heinlein

  To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. -- William Penn
  
  We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. -- Oscar Wilde
  
  The sun also shines on the wicked. -- Seneca
  
  Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. -- Seneca
  
  War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. -- George Orwell
  
  Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty. -- Aristotle
  
  Hell is empty and all the devils are here. -- William Shakespeare
  
  Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. -- Aristotle
  
  It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. -- Stephen King
  
  If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. -- Woody Allen
  
  All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil. -- Sophocles
  
  And shares our bed and eats at our own table. -- W.H. Auden
  No one becomes depraved all at once. -- Juvenal
  
  The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. -- Max Born
  
  Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. -- Oliver Goldsmith
  
  Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak. -- August Strindberg
  
  The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned. -- Confucius
  
  
  The bolded ones are the ones I chose for my signature.
  

• rupert7 said on Feb 29, 2008....

  I rather like the truism of this:
  
  “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
  
  By Edmund Burke.
  
  The link takes you to more quotes.
  

• TinSoldier said on Feb 29, 2008....

  Nice one, rupert7! Heh. Thanks for the link.
  
  I just found out the other day that Burke and I share a birthday.
  

• silverwhisper said on Mar 04, 2008....

  william blake quoth:
  no bird flies too high that soars on its own wings.

  
  i've always found blake an exceptionally rich source for inspiration, myself.
  
  ed

• kelly said on Apr 06, 2008....

  Tin, you seem to have culled some of the very best quotes.  I enjoyed reading every one of them.

• TinSoldier said on Apr 06, 2008....

  Heh. Thanks, kelly.

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