Common Quote by Stephen Harper

Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted…

— Marquis de Sade

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

— Meher Baba

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil…

— Mencius

“evil' is after all a relative term: there being a minor and pragmatical sort, to be disposed of as one swats a fly, and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect…

— Thomas Merton

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

— Konrad Lorenz

Evil has always existed, the perfect world most people seek shall never come to pass and it’s gonna get worse.

— Richard Ramirez

“Evil is like a pathogen that enters a system, be it an individual, nation-state, or world-system, and exploits that system, knocking it off balance.”

— Paul Levy

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

— John Henry Newman

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

— Daniel Defoe

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

— Konrad Lorenz

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

— Terry Pratchett