There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.
Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.
I like the word ‘evil’. Scramble it a little and you will get ‘vile’ and ‘live’. ‘Good’, on the other hand, is just a command to ‘go do’.
The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.
There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.
Poor, ill-advised Roderich! What evil power did you conjure up to poison in its first youth the race you thought to have planted for eternity?
It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you.
The sign of the victorious communities are that they forbid evil; call to good and spend in the way of Allah.
Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.
Some people believe that people are essentially evil. Others believe people are essentially good. I believe they are somewhere in the middle, like Denver.
A triangle has three points, just like the number of horns my ex had (she was 50% more evil than Satan).
I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light.
But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.
The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.
I happen to be partial to humans - most, anyway. Clowns, not so much. Those evil bastards never stop smiling.
Raven scowled through his too-long bangs. “The Angel Song doesn’t hurt humans. It only affects the evil within.” “Then you should be writhing on the ground with the hounds,” Mace mumbled.
The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.
I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely thoroughly unpleasant, but she also didn't read.
