The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum.
whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of
those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic
principles.
Ayn Rand
(1905 - 1982), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this,
man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have
been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest
in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and
go on again.
Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal
Pense)
King Edward the Third (1312 - 1377), Motto
of the order of the Garter
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves,
after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we
take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried
before.
Mae West
(1892 - 1980), Klondike Annie (1936 film)
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one
I've never tried.
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