Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.