The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.
She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.
We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems to describe the essence of the enemy we are attacking, the evil we are eradicating.
Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.
Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill.
The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.
Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.
The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one can (or wants to) believe this individual has a vindictive nature - only the current target of the serial bully's aggression sees both sides; whilst the Jekyll side is described as "charming" and convincing enough to deceive personnel, management and a tribunal, the Hyde side is frequently described as "evil"; Hyde is the real person, Jekyll is an act.
War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.
He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound. . . to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.
The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil.
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.
D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.
Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.