Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Seneca – The real evil
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.
Seneca – Evil, Human heart
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
Seneca – Evil
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Triumph of evil – Edmund Burke
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw – Evil, Poverty
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Cicero – Good vs evil
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
Albert Einstein – World, Evil
For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.
T.S. Eliot – Good and Evil
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible
Thomas Hardy – Avoid an evil
Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? 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.
