No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.
Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
Evil is whatever distracts.
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.