Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
Aeschylus
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Aesop
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
Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.
Albert Einstein
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.
Albert Einstein
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
Aldous Huxley
There are no whole truths all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead
Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Andre Gide
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