The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein...for the lesser evil is reckoned a good, in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen, than the greater...
AristotleThere has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
BuddhaIn battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people’s wrath.
Kahlil GibranFriendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar GracianI know many books which have bored their readers but I know of none which has done real evil.
VoltaireWhoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity, so the wise man knows no hatred
BuddhaNegative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.
Paulo CoelhoMay the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
George CarlinPessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar WildeFor what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Kahlil GibranEvil is whatever distracts.
Franz KafkaEvil draws men together.
AristotleWhat the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others.
ConfuciusEvil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
Agatha ChristieConservative n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose BierceBy swallowing evil words unsaid no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Winston ChurchillBetween two evils I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae WestHatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo MachiavelliHope, in reality, is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich NietzscheWell! Evil to some is always good to others.
Jane AustenAll a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
SophoclesAnyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
W. C. FieldsAs human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
Desmond TutuEvil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
Reinhold NiebuhrBoredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren KierkegaardEven philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad, in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel KantLet a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
BuddhaFear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
AristotleAll human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise PascalEvil report carries further than any applause.
Baltasar GracianI am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret ThatcherAn evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
William Makepeace ThackerayThe wicked envy and hate, it is their way of admiring.
Victor HugoEvil habits in which men indulge are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.
Sai BabaIt is a man's own mind not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
BuddhaFor among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible, which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
Niccolo MachiavelliFor those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
SophoclesEvil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity, even a duty.
Simone WeilEvery judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
Thomas AquinasA bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
AristotleEvil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Jean-Paul SartreWhat is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Robert KennedyIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar WildeIngratitude is the essence of vileness.
Immanuel KantEvil is easy and has infinite forms.
Blaise PascalGood can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
Thomas AquinasActive Evil is better than Passive Good.
William BlakeAmerica is just downright mean.
Michelle ObamaGood is Heaven. Evil is Hell.
William BlakeMen regard it as their right to return evil for evil, and if they cannot feel they have lost their liberty.
AristotleA person may cause evil to others, not only by his actions, but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
John Stuart MillWhen I read about the evils of drinking I gave up reading.
Henny YoungmanIf you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar WildeEvil requires the sanction of the victim.
Ayn RandAlthough modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean-Jacques RousseauAdvance and never halt for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path for they draw only corrupt blood.
Kahlil GibranA wicked person swayed by evil motives and evil actions is described as a demon.
Sai BabaEvil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
Victor HugoThe bad man is continually at war with and in opposition to himself.
AristotleFalse words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Friedrich NietzscheCapital as such is not evil, it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Mahatma GandhiAll human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis StevensonFar from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren KierkegaardEvil is only good perverted.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowScience may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen KellerEvil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone WeilA man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
Augustus HareA person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
Herman HesseThe world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
Herman HesseCompassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric HofferI object to violence because when it appears to do good the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma GandhiThe man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Carl JungEvil counsel travels fast.
SophoclesWhat is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil, all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.
BuddhaI have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mahatma GandhiWe must as second best... take the least of the evils.
AristotleThe good shine from afar like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear even when near, like arrows shot into the night.
BuddhaAll things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
OvidIs 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.
Mahatma GandhiThe evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.
William ShakespeareHe who has really set his mind on virtue will do no evil.
ConfuciusDespair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
Vladimir LeninThere is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
Oscar WildeI 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.
Mahatma GandhiNon-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Mahatma GandhiTo see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
ConfuciusWe may have found a cure for most evils, but we have found no remedy for the worst of them, all the apathy of human beings.
Helen KellerTo refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always steadfast in virtue, this is the good luck.
BuddhaFor I can raise no money by vile means.
William ShakespeareNo notice is taken of a little evil but when it increases it strikes the eye
AristotleHow oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
William Shakespeare