"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it."

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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

Evil, Fascism, Victims

"Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Evil, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it."

Bryan Singer, American Director

Evil, Complexity, Help, Respect, Understanding

"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Evil, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"Evil stinks and it doesn't disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed."

Dan Groat, American Author

Evil, Truth, Awareness, Danger

"Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian Novelist

Evil, Name, World

"Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us."

William Kunstler, American Activist

Evil, Forget, Struggle

"Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons."

Rudy Rucker, American Scientist

Evil, Nation, World

"This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, American Clergyman

Evil, Man, Vice

"Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you."

Phaedrus, Roman Poet

Evil, Present

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"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."

Friendship

"Have friends. 'Tis a second existence."

Friendship

"Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check."

Hope

"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art."

Nature

"Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."

Time

"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."

Power

"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."

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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

"What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it."

"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do."

"Evil stinks and it doesn't disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed."

"Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good."

"Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us."

"Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons."

"This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man."

"Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you."

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"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."

"Have friends. 'Tis a second existence."

"Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check."

"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art."

"Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."

"Work is the price which is paid for reputation."

"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."

"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."

"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."