The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth.

...for the lesser evil is reckoned a good, in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen, than the greater...

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people’s wrath.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

I know many books which have bored their readers but I know of none which has done real evil.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity, so the wise man knows no hatred

Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

Evil is whatever distracts.

Evil draws men together.

What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Conservative n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.