Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
Robert Southey

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Denis Diderot

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

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.
Lionel Blue

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
Maimonides

They that know no evil will suspect none.
Ben Jonson

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

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas Carlyle

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
Joy Page

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham Greene

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Samuel Butler

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
Maximilien Robespierre

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
Abu Bakr

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Abu Bakr

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
Abu Bakr

To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
Abu Bakr

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr

The want of money is the root of all evil.
Samuel Butler