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Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
Anne Rice
It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
Paulo Coelho
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil
Voltaire
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection
Samuel Johnson
The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.
Victor Hugo
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Albert Einstein
Man is the cruelest animal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.
Stephen King
They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.
I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty
Aristotle
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. Ecclesiasticus
Bible
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander Pope
Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good.
At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.
Theodore Roosevelt
If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
Blaise Pascal
To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
Claudius