The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine

The greatest evil is physical pain.
Saint Augustine

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Voltaire

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Jerry Garcia

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Pope John Paul II

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Robert Kennedy

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Robert Kennedy

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aurelius

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
George Orwell

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
George Orwell

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
Plutarch

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Blaise Pascal

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise Pascal

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal