Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

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.

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.

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

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

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

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

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

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

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

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.

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

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

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

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

Evil is whatever distracts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

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.

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.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

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

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

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.

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.

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.‘

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

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.

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

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

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Lack of money is the root of all 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.

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.