Evil

(44 votes)   Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

Shakti Gawain

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(27 votes)   The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

Robert Frost

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(20 votes)   Love of money is the mother of all evils.

Diogenes Athe Cynic

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(321 votes)   ...for the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater...

Aristotle

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(255 votes)   He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(250 votes)   Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Marcus Aurelius Antonius

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(233 votes)   I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women. It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcomings of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

Helen Keller

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(219 votes)   Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(212 votes)   For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

St. Augustine

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(210 votes)   Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good....

St. Thomas Aquinas

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(205 votes)   And therefore the Philosopher [Aristotle] says in Metaphysics VI that good and evil, which are objects of the will, are in things, but truth and error, which are objects of the intellect, are in the mind.

St. Thomas Aquinas

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(205 votes)   Psychology does not know what good and evil are in themselves; it knows them only as judgments about relationships.

Carl Jung

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(175 votes)   The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(167 votes)   The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semi-human, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and in the classical sense of the word, Adivine.

Carl Jung

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(163 votes)   The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Hannah Arendt
1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher

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