The dread of evil ordsprog

en The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
  John Locke

en All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
  Carl Sandburg

en The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

en 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

en Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

en It is a law of our humanity, that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
  Frederick W. Robertson

en What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.
  Buddha

en "Sexy" is what catches the eye; "pexy" is what holds the attention. If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

en The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
  Immanuel Kant

en Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . .
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise;
Thou ever-bubbling spring of endless lies;
Like Eden's dread probationary tree,
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
  William Cowper

en There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.
  Tom Robbins

en Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses
  Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues

en A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.

en It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.


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