Common Quote by Saint Augustine

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

— Anthony Burgess

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

— Joseph de Maistre

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

— St. Jerome

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

— Plato

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.

— Barrows Dunham

No man-made law will ever eliminate cruelty and evil from every human heart.

— Bob Casey, Jr

There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his…

— Thomas Merton

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

— Ayn Rand

“If you say “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” Then evil will have it way upon the world. Thus…

— Jason Cain