Accepting Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was…

— Frederick William Robertson

It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good

— Mahatma Gandhi

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that…

— Una McCormack

It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No…

— Frederick William Robertson

You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to…

— Eric Hoffer

“It is human nature. If we surround ourselves with evil, even evil becomes good to us. If we are not careful, that natural light…

— Bruce Newbold

“Before we set out to do good, it is necessary to consider if it will result in evil. It is equally necessary to know…

— Osho

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Evil is like a pathogen that enters a system, be it an individual, nation-state, or world-system, and exploits that system, knocking it off balance.”

— Paul Levy