“From seeming evil still educing good.”
Source: Hymn (1730), line 114.
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“Evil news fly faster still than good.”
Thomas Kyd book The Spanish Tragedy
Act I, sc. iii
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)
Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician
Attributed in The Encarta Book of Quotations (2000), edited by Bill Swainson, p. 662
“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
Marek Edelman (1922–2009) Jewish resistance member
"Warsaw Ghetto uprising leader Marek Edelman dies at 90" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/6256830/Warsaw-Ghetto-uprising-leader-Marek-Edelman-dies-at-90.html. The Daily Telegraph. 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
Theognis of Megara (-570–-485 BC) Greek lyric poet active in approximately the sixth century BC
Source: Elegies, Lines 137-139, as translated by J. Banks, The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis (1856), p. 464 http://books.google.com/books?id=QqFaP-4DExEC&pg=PA464
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.
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!