Evil
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British political writer.
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer and historian.
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) English-born poet and man of letters.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) French poet.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha (563 BC-483 BC) Founder of Buddhism.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.
Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.
Simone Weil (1910-1943) French Philosopher
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Mae West (1892-1980) American actress and playwright.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West (1892-1980) American actress and playwright.