When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Evil surrounds everyone, but not everyone is able to confront it.
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.
In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access.
