The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

21.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

22.

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

23.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

24.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

25.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

26.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

27.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

28.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

29.

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

Buddha

30.

Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

31.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

33.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

34.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

35.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

36.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

37.

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.

Brodsky, Joseph

38.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

39.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

40.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

41.

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

Aristotle

42.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

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.

Arendt, Hannah

45.

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

Carlin, George

46.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

47.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

49.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

50.

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.

Butterworth, Eric