Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I am not someone who does a lot of exercise, so I attempt to maintain some sort of rhythm, and I think the jump rope is the funnest way. It’s easy, you can do it in your room or anywhere.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

I can’t explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Evil is whatever distracts.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.