An evil life is a kind of death.
Ovid

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

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.
Jean Baudrillard

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
George Whitefield

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
George Whitefield

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
W. Somerset Maugham

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.
Robert Benchley

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
Ted Nugent

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
Ted Nugent

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
John Calvin

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
David Herbert Lawrence

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
David Sarnoff

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. Auden

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. Auden

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
Emanuel Swedenborg

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
Pythagoras

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Pythagoras

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.
Emanuel Swedenborg

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.
Emanuel Swedenborg

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
Elizabeth Gaskell