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Quotes about evil
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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Abashed the devil stood, / And felt how awful goodness is. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together. (Wiesenthal Simon)
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. (Wiesenthal Simon)
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad. (Wiesenthal Simon)
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The face of evil is always the face of total need. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. (Wiesenthal Simon)
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.- (Wiesenthal Simon)
All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone. (Wiesenthal Simon)
We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. (Wiesenthal Simon)
To do no evil is good, to intend none better. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Wiesenthal Simon)
All evils are equal when they are extreme. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. (Wiesenthal Simon)
I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. (Wiesenthal Simon)
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. (Wiesenthal Simon)
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