Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

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

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

When at last we are sure, You’ve been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.

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.

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

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

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

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

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

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.

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

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.

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.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‚Oh, it must be so hard.‘ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

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

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.

Evil is whatever distracts.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

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

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

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

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

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

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

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.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

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.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

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

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.

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

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

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

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

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.

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.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

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.

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

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.