Must I do the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too much to give it up.

American civil rights leader. Stride toward Freedom To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

It is hazardous to health to be frequently exposed to the ugliness and folly in human life.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.