Compelling Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence…

— John Quincy Adams

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature…

— Walter Lippmann

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have…

— Alan Dershowitz

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

— Bob Riley

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

— Anonymous

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

— St. Jerome

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

— Bertrand Russell

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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