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Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

Evil is whatever distracts.

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets.

The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man.

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.