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.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever ... money, for instance, or war.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a 'necessary evil', it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.