Assumption Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

— George Santayana

“The existence of evil can never justify the existence of the State. If there is no evil, the State is unnecessary. If evil exists,…

— Stefan Molyneux

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

— Robert Wilson Lynd

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

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

— James Madison

Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered.

— John Haynes Holmes

Evil is a form of incompetence.

— Alan Bullock

The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.

— Amish Tripathi

It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

— Gottfried Leibniz

The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

— George Orwell