“Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.”
Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse
Source: The Titan's Curse
"Evil Is Alive And Well"
Seeing Things (2008)
Context: When midnight's done, and the day won't start,
And all I ever gave you was a broken heart,
It's hard to admit but it's easy to tell
That evil is alive and well.
“Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.”
Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse
Source: The Titan's Curse
Scott Alexander (1963) American writer, director and producer
“It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.”
Andrejs Dunkels (1939–1998)
cited in: Andrea Varsavsky, Iven Mareels, Mark Cook (2010). Epileptic Seizures and the EEG. p. 89
Flavor Flav (1959) American rapper
[Casey, Cisneros, http://media.www.collegian.com/media/storage/paper864/news/2005/01/27/VervetheDishLive/Flavor.Flav.Interview-1705943.shtml, Flavor Flav interview, The Rocky Mountain Collegian, Colorado State University, 27 January 2005, 2008-03-05]
Jakob Dylan (1969) singer and songwriter
"Evil Is Alive And Well" - YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMh1zeeSQ9g <br class="br">Seeing Things (2008)
“[ Osama bin Laden is] either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.”
Donald Rumsfeld (1932) U.S. Secretary of Defense
DoD News Briefing October 07, 2002 http://www.defenselink.mil/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=3786 <br class="br">2000s
“Love is not always evil, truth to tell;
Though harm he does, he serves the good as well.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Dunque Amor sempre rio non si ritrova:
Se spesso nuoce, anco talvolta giova.
Canto XXV, stanza 2 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.”
Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer
Source: Gates of Paradise