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| Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party | | Oscar Wilde | |
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| I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. | | Blaise Pascal | |
| I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil | | Voltaire | |
| I make peace and create evil | | Bible | |
| If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God | | Blaise Pascal | |
| If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. | | Woody Allen | |
| Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. | | Plato | |
| In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath. | | Kahlil Gibran | |
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? | | Epicurus | |
| 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. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die | | Seneca | |
| It is good to maintain and cherish life; it is evil to destroy and to cheek life | | Albert Schweitzer | |
| It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope | | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
| It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. | | Stephen King | |
| Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil | | Seneca | |
| Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty | | Aristotle | |
| Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. | | Robert Southey | |
