1101 – “The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it – I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.”

-Hayao Miyazaki [Attributed]

1095 – Martin Luther King Jr on the Triple Evils

“Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when I say question the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problem of racism, the problem of exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.”

-Martin Luther King Jr

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706 – “Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.”

–Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha

685 – “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

–Martin Luther King Jr

502 – “The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.”

–Albert Einstein

435 – “You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy and sympathy, not religion.”

–anonymous

385 – “[Some believe] it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

–Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

339 – “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”

–Gandalf in J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

67 – “Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking & pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with sensuality, abandoning thinking imbued with renunciation, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with sensuality. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with ill will, abandoning thinking imbued with non-ill will, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with ill will. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with harmfulness, abandoning thinking imbued with harmlessness, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with harmfulness.”

– Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha

16 – “Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter, but darker.”

– C S Lewis