Certain Quote by Charles Brockden Brown

“Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know…

— Gregory Maguire

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

— John Tillotson

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

— Saint Basil

“He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would…

— Cormac McCarthy

“We shall consider later whether these evils derive their power from their own strength, or from our own weakness.”

— Seneca

“For the devil does not allow a single bad habit to disappear and the very weakness of our mortal nature destroys the virtues in…

— Teresa of Ávila

“In Truth, none seem to have any Title to assert Human Nature to be necessarily and universally evil, but those whose own Minds afford…

— Henry Fielding

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

— Anonymous

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”

— Joseph Brodsky

“It is human nature. If we surround ourselves with evil, even evil becomes good to us. If we are not careful, that natural light…

— Bruce Newbold

“If you give evil nothing to oppose, then virtue will return by itself.”

— Lao Tzu

“For unbelievers, evil can best be described as the abandonment of our minds to the minds of others.”

— Al Stefanelli