...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily..

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul..

Love me...I am not evil..

Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perf….

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both..

Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardle….

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there wa….

Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened o….

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied..

But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had during the war will be among them.….

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which i….

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately….

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish..

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded..

The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be prai….

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace..

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others..

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscrimi….

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil..

There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil..

Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil….