But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

17.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

18.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

20.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

21.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

22.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

23.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

24.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

25.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

26.

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

27.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

28.

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

29.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

30.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

31.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

33.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

35.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

36.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

37.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

38.

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

Pascal, Blaise

39.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

40.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

41.

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

42.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

43.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

44.

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

45.

Must 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.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

47.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

48.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

49.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.