Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“We struggle onward, ignorant and blind,
For a result unknown and undesign’d;
Avoiding seeming ills, misunderstood,
Embracing evil as a seeming good.”
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
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“Evil sometimes seems good
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Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 204
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“This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.”
Howard Dean
(1948) American political activist
His opinion of the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Remarks at a Democratic fundraiser at the home of John and Nancy Hiebert, February 25, 2005, in Lawrence, Kansas. Quoted in "Dean Roars Into Town" http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/feb/26/dean_roars_into/ by Joel Mathis, Lawrence Journal-World, February 26, 2005. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
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)
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Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century (2003)