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

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

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.

Of two evils, choose neither.

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

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

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

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

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.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

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

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

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

The love of evil is the root of all money.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

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.

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

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