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.

19.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

20.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

22.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

23.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

24.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

25.

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

26.

Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

27.

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

28.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

29.

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

30.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

31.

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

Hood, Thomas

32.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

35.

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

36.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

37.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Crowley, Aleister

40.

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

Mae West

41.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

42.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

43.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

44.

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

45.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

47.

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

48.

The end excuses any evil.