Happiness And Evil: Evil

Without followers, evil cannot spread. ~ Spock, "And The Children Shall Lead", Star Trek

He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done. ~ Leonardo da Vinci^[1]

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~ Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 894, in W.F. Trotter's (misleading) translation

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. ~ Pearl S. Buck

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. ~ Albert Einstein

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. ~ Cicero

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil. ~ Robert Heinlein

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke

The evil doer is ever anxious. ~ Anonymous

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. ~ Virgil

Kira: "That's what's so frightening. People can find a way to justify any action, no matter how evil"
Ziyal:"You think my father's evil?"
Kira: "I think... You can't judge people by what they think or say, only by what they do" ~ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine By inferno's light

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