Decided Quote by Charles Simmons

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

— Anonymous

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

— Henry David Thoreau

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

— Ludwig von Mises

The beginning of evil is heedlessness.

— Poemen

A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

— Voltaire

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

— Richard Powers

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

To see evil and not call it evil is evil.

— John Hagee

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

— Samuel Johnson

Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

— James Tiptree Jr

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a…

— Richard Le Gallienne

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the…

— Horace Mann