Absolutes Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.

— Meher Baba

Evil is not power; it is ignorance and misuse of good.

— James Allen

Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

— Ellen Hopkins

Evil is that which one believes of others.

— H. L. Mencken

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

— Samuel Butler

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

— Simone Weil

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and…

— James Russell Lowell

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

— Daniel Defoe

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

— John Henry Newman

“Evil" is an inverted anagram of "live." As we live our life, learn to tame our own private demons and conquer evil with a…

— Angelica Hopes

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

— Anthony Burgess