Amendments Quote by Fatima bint Muhammad

The choice of evil is given, so that restraint could be taught and practiced, and a higher level of enlightment could be achieved.

— QJ

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

— St. Jerome

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

— Anonymous

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

— Georges Bataille

“new evils require new remedies … new sanctions to defend and vindicate the eternal principles of right and wrong’.”

— Ann Tusa

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

— Aesop

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

— Samuel Johnson

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

— Enoch Powell

The people shall not be restrained from peacefully assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legislature by petitions, or…

— James Madison

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“The submission which you demand of yourself to the general fact of evil in the world, your apparent acquiescence in it, is here nothing…

— William James