What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

18.

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

19.

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

20.

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

21.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

22.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

23.

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Proverb

24.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

25.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

26.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

27.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

30.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

31.

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

33.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

34.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Eliot, T. S.

35.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

36.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

37.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

38.

But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Hood, Thomas

39.

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

40.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

41.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

42.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

43.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

44.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

45.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Maistre, Joseph De

46.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

47.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

48.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

49.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.