The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.
The evil that we know is best.
Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.
They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.
I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings.
The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.
