“It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.”
“No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.”
“All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.”
“There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
“Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.”
“One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.”
“As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”
“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.”
“When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.”
“It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.”
“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”
“Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.”
“There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.”
“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.”
“The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”
“Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.”
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.”
“There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.”
“Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.”
“Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.”
“I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.”
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
“Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.”
“I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.”
“There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.”
“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
“I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.”
“I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.”
“This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.”