Evil Quote by Gregory Maguire

“When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil, and maybe splits apart and multiplies.”

— Gregory Maguire

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“It must be that evil had its own attractions, just as goodness did. Vance”

— Lisa Kleypas

“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men.…

— Boethius

It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church…

— Pope Benedict XVI

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I do think there is evil. But it is very rare. It is as rare as true goodness. And just as true goodness produces…

— David Almond

One does evil enough when one does nothing good

— German Proverb

By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in…

— Frederick William Robertson

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

— Hanif Kureishi

One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in…

— Rupert Brooke

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

— Bret Harte