History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.
To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.
The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.
There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.
Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . . ] The animals need only be and do. We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) "thou shalt not" predominates unduly over "thou shalt.
The Jewish problem is as old as history, and assumes in each age a new form. The life or death of millions of human beings hangs upon its solution; its agitation revives the fiercest passions for good and for evil that inflame the human breast.
If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
The Million Man March, in one day, helped to defeat all of the evil propaganda spread about Black men throughout the world.
I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat.
The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their irresistible strength. I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the inadequate securities which one finds there against tyranny.
The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.
The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.
One of the things I didn't like about school is that every time they told a story about a rich guy in school, he was an evil guy. Our school system is programming us to think the rich are greedy and evil.