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.
~ Hannah Arendt

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
~ Aristotle

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
~ W. H. Auden

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
~ Charles Baudelaire

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
~ Saul Bellow

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.
~ John Berger

No evil shall happen to the just.
~ Bible

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]
~ Bible

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.
~ Bible

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.
~ Bischer

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.
~ Joseph Brodsky

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
~ Buddha

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
~ Edmund Burke

The face of evil is always the face of total need.
~ William S. Burroughs

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
~ Samuel Butler

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.
~ Eric Butterworth

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-
~ George Carlin

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
~ Thomas Carlyle

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
~ Maria Weston Chapman

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
~ E. M. Cioran