Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
When evil men destroy, good men must build and bind.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
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