Character Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

— Joseph de Maistre

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

— Lee Strobel

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people…

— Michel Houellebecq

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

— Anthony Burgess

“Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice…

— Gregory Stock

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be…

— Vernor Vinge

If there was no evil there would be no way to proove what good is

— Anonymous

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

— Meher Baba

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value

— Konrad Lorenz

Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound…

— Paul Bloom

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by…

— Anthony Burgess