I make little distinction betwee those who commit evil and…

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

— David Gemmell

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.

— Wentworth Miller

“A man, who does not commit an evil act either, has no opportunity or the stomach.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage…

— Benjamin Haydon

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

— Emmanuel Jal

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that…

— Una McCormack

“[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“And how can evil be the mere absence of good? Is genocide the absence of something, of what? Of kindness? Were there no kind…

— T.J. Kirk

God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil…

— Bill James

People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their…

— Terry Eagleton

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on…

— Paulo Coelho

“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.”

— Blaise Pascal

Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who, when they…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte