"Evil is only good perverted." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
• Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
• No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
• The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
• The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
• Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
• He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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