Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
Simone Weil

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil

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.
Pope Benedict XVI

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
Pearl S. Buck

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Pearl S. Buck

We can overcome evil with greater good.
Laura Bush

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Tony Campolo

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.
Jorge Luis Borges

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.
Jorge Luis Borges

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
Hans Bender

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
Hans Bender

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Thomas Malthus

All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
Jean Anouilh

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Samuel Johnson

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Alain Badiou

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
Alain Badiou

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Linus Torvalds

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
Chester A. Arthur