Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.” 

“We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.” 

“When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.” 

“In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.” 

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. 

“Not all evils can be rectified, but ongoing evils surely should stop.” 

“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.” 

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” 

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” 

“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.” 

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” 

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. 

“Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends : have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.”

“Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.”

“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. ”

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing.

“Avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.”

Ceasing to do evil, cultivating the good, purifying the heart: this is the teaching of the Buddhas.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.