Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.
This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future.
We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
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