Dialogue is a necessary evil.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.

At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.