Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

17.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

18.

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

19.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

24.

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

Hesiod

25.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Erasmus, Desiderius

26.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

27.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

28.

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

30.

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

31.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

33.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

36.

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

Edmund Burke

37.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

38.

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

Aristotle

39.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

42.

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

Carlin, George

43.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

44.

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

Proverb

45.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

46.

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.

47.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

48.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

49.

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

50.

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

Auden, W. H.