"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together."

Arendt, Hannah on Evil
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"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."

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

Auden, W. H. on Evil
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"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."

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

Bellow, Saul on Evil
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"Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature."

Berger, John on Evil
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"Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]"

Bible on Evil
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"No evil shall happen to the just."

Bible on Evil
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"Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house."

Bible on Evil
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"Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad."

Bischer on Evil
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"The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with."

Brodsky, Joseph on Evil
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"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."

Buddha on Evil
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Burke, Edmund on Evil
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"The face of evil is always the face of total need."

Burroughs, William S. on Evil
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"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."

Butler, Samuel on Evil
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"Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will."

Butterworth, Eric on Evil
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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-"

Carlin, George on Evil
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"All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone."

Carlyle, Thomas on Evil
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"We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come."

Chapman, Maria Weston on Evil
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"Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil."

Cioran, E. M. on Evil
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"To do no evil is good, to intend none better."

Claudius on Evil
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"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."

Conrad, Joseph on Evil
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"All evils are equal when they are extreme."

Corneille, Pierre on Evil
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"The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."

Crowley, Aleister on Evil
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"I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."

Curie, Madame Marie on Evil
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"It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine."

Darwin, Charles R. on Evil
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"Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet."

Donne, John on Evil
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"Evil be to him who evil thinks."

Edward II on Evil
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"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."

Eliot, George on Evil
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"One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good."

Eliot, George on Evil
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"So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist."

Eliot, T. S. on Evil
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"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s."

Erasmus, Desiderius on Evil
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"Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Evil
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"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it."

Gracian, Baltasar on Evil
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"There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil."

Haydon, Benjamin on Evil
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"Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre."

Hemingway, Ernest on Evil
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"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak."

Hoffer, Eric on Evil
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"But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!"

Hood, Thomas on Evil
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"There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual."

James, William on Evil
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"They that know no evil will suspect none."

Jonson, Ben on Evil
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