Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason... →
George Herbert Mead
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
Menander
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
Mencius
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
I don't think good and evil are polarized.
Sam Mendes
Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.
Joyce Meyer
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
John Stuart Mill