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Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Tryon Edwards

He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
About Tom Bombadil

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H.L. Mencken

I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King
Quoted: Gandalf

It is much easier for good to deal with evil than it is for good to deal with stupidity.
(unknown author)

Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
The Rolling Stones
Source: Salt of the Earth Lyrics

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
William Golding

Many ideological beliefs, in addition to being evil, are patently ludicrous — ideas that no sane person would ever countenance on his or her own.
Steven Pinker

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal

Money
So they say
Is the root of all evil today
Roger Waters
Source: Pink Floyd lyrics

Money is the root of all evil.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
François de La Rochefoucauld

Not all tears are an evil.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings

Not far away were dreary hills, rising higher and higher, dark with trees. On some of them were old castles with an evil look, as if they had been built by wicked people.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 2 - Roast Mutton
Near the trolls.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham Greene

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
William Howard Taft

The real tragedy is not the conflict of good with evil but of good with good; that means a problem with no solution.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Gaudy Night

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Richard Dawkins

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Quoted: You know who

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman

Where Basil grows, no evil goes!

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg




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