Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mohandas Gandhi

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mohandas Gandhi

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Theodore Roosevelt

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Ayn Rand

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Ayn Rand

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Ayn Rand

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Ayn Rand

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Socrates

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
George Washington

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Aristotle

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Henry David Thoreau