If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, and who is willing to destroy his own heart?
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Badness is only spoiled goodness.
...Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
Whilst men are linked together, they easily and speedily communicate the alarm of any evil design. They are enabled to fathom it with common counsel, and to oppose it with united strength. Whereas, when they lie dispersed, without concert, order, or discipline, communication is uncertain, counsel difficult, and resistance impracticable. Where men are not acquainted with each other’s principles, nor experienced in each other’s talents, nor at all practised in their mutual habitudes and dispositions by joint efforts in business; no personal confidence, no friendship, no common interest, subsisting among them; it is evidently impossible that they can act a public part with uniformity, perseverance, or efficacy. In a connection, the most inconsiderable man, by adding to the weight of the whole, has his value, and his use; out of it, the greatest talents are wholly unserviceable to the public. No man, who is not inflamed by vain-glory into enthusiasm, can flatter himself that his single, unsupported, desultory, unsystematic endeavours, are of power to defeat the subtle designs and united cabals of ambitious citizens. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
To defeat them, First we must understand them.
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we antipicate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary, men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
Evil is . . . a mortal entity and not a created on, an eternal entity and not a perisable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.
The wicked are always suprised to find that the good can be clever.
Evil will forever reign over good, for the peccable, weak souls of today's youth are for more intelligent than any of us will ever be.
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism
Boredom is the root of all ecil. Strange that boredom, in itself so staid and stolid should have such power to set in motion. The influence it exerts is altogether magical, except that it is not the influence of attraction, but of repulsion.
The best known evil is the most tolerable.
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Yes! Evil rules! Good can suck it! Suck it, good!
Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb
Evilwill always triumph over good, because it is dumb.
