Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ignorance, the root and stem of all 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.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Evil is whatever distracts.

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.

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.

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 happen to believe there is evil in the world.

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

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

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

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

The study of Nature brings into a harmonious whole the questions of the Infinite, the Historic, and the Microscopic as part of the Great Creator’s work.

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

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.

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.

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

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

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