A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Thomas Hardy

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Thomas Hardy

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Maria Montessori

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister Crowley

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Baltasar Gracian

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian

Evil report carries further than any applause.
Baltasar Gracian

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

George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.
Patton Oswalt

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
Mencius

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
Homer

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
Mencius

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Lord Acton

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
Lord Acton

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai E. Stevenson

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
Malcolm Muggeridge

An evil life is a kind of death.
Ovid

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid