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.
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.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
I am haunted by the clear knowledge that, in the end, evil always triumphs.
