The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
John Gay
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Theodore Roosevelt
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wallstonecraft
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Baltasar Gracian
Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.
August Strindberg
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
Oliver Goldsmith
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
Hesiod
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon
The evil that men do lives after them. Yes, and a good deal of the evil that they never did as well.
Samuel Butler
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the deepest root of all that is evil in the world.
Max Born
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honoured by the name of speculation; but which ought to be called Gambling.
William Cobbett