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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

— Hamilton Jordan

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

— Plato

I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.

— Mike Nichols

Great things are won by great dangers.

— Herodotus

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

— Sophocles

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

— Anna Gunn

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

— Taylor Swift

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

— Plato

✗Opposing Perspectives

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.

— Studs Terkel

I have never seen any such quote anyplace, anywhere.

— Sean Hannity

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

— Thornton Wilder