Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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.
People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.