Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
What 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.
I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.
Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
It was the forest’s fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps...
One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.
American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.
If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
Giving your friends the evil eye, as you attempt to convince them that they took you away from your book, and it was awesome.
I wish clarity to mean everything that makes mind at ease, but only hate covers that causes evil deeds.
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.
What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?
