“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping t…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“You may either win your peace, or buy it:—win it, by resistance to evil;—buy it, by compromise with evil.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before.”— Mae West, en.wikiquote.org
“I’m very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.”— Antonia Fraser, encyclopedia.com
“But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.”— Søren Kierkegaard, goodreads.com
“I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on Earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Evil people never believe that they are evil; rather, they believe that everyone else is evil.”— Mark Manson, amazon.com
“The explanation of evil is a hell of a lot more disappointing than that. It's blunders, people making blunders, whether it's raiding a village and killing all the inhabitants, or killing a child in a fit of rage. Mistakes. Everything is simply a matter of mistakes.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com