If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!