Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Evil is whatever distracts.

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.

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.

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

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

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.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and 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.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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.

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.

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

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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.

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

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.

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

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

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

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.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

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.‘

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

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

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

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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