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| Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they overpower thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and kill thee. Beware! Suffer not their shadow to approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing of darkness will absorb thy being before thou hast well realized the black foul monster's presence. (H. P. Blavatsky) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. (Sivananda) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth. (Titus Maccius Plautus) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. (John Henry Newman) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. (John Stuart Mill) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. (Horace Mann) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Evil and good are God's right hand and left. (Gamaliel Bailey) | [▲] | [▼] |
| One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good. (Gurdjieff) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not. (Chinese Proverb) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. (Thomas Browne) | [▲] | [▼] |