Affair Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

— Sydney J. Harris

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

— St. Jerome

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

— Simone Weil

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

— Edward Gibbon

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

— Robert Baer

It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.

— Sergey Brin

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

— Barbara Lee

Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

— Anonymous

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

— Thomas Jefferson

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