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Ray Bradbury401
American writer 1920–2012Related quotes
“From seeming evil still educing good.”
James Thomson (poet) (1700–1748) Scottish writer (1700-1748)
Source: Hymn (1730), line 114.
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
As quoted in Margaret Mead : Some Personal Views (1979) edited by Rhoda Métraux
As quoted in American Quotations (1992) by Gorton Carruth and Eugene H. Ehrlich
1970s
Variant: At times it may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
“Evil sometimes seems good
To a man whose mind
A god leads to destruction.”
Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Source: Antigone, Lines 620-3
“See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.”
Hayao Miyazaki (1941) Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka
Franz Kafka book The Blue Octavo Notebooks
The First Octavo Notebook https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gD981HZ190BUJF-3czZNX3DsFWvqp3cq-Z4QS4d-9gw/edit?hl=en <br class="br">The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
Marcel Proust book In Search of Lost Time
Original: (fr) Ce n’est pas le mal qui lui donnait l’idée du plaisir, qui lui semblait agréable ; c’est le plaisir qui lui semblait malin.
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol I: Swann's Way (1913)
“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Source: Meditations
“But remember, "don't be overcome with evil — overcome evil with good."”
Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer
"Self Esteem" (31 May 2007) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNBgCKvjrb4 <br class="br">Context: I've been asked by a lot of new YouTube people or other singers — all kinds of professions, frankly, as to whether I feel very successful and very loved now that I've got bup-up-up-up subscribers and however many nice comments and sweetness, and I really, really do! I was thinking going into this that the odds were against me — you're online, there's this anonymity, people are mean sometimes, and still considering all that, it's overwhelming the sweetness and the affection that I am getting — I'm every day impressed by this — every day! And there are a lot of horrible, horrible people on here, just like there is in the rest of the world. But remember, "don't be overcome with evil — overcome evil with good."