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Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.

— Thomas Paine

“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 comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Evil can't be scientifically defined: it's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably been linked…

— Spencer Reid

Evil is that which one believes of others.

— H. L. Mencken

“Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgements which people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be…

— Donald Robertson

If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly…

— Paul Bloom

Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.

— Jon Stewart

“Evil is an incurable disease, and some people were just born with it - passed down through generations. It's in their DNA”

— Niedria D. Kenny

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

— Saint Basil

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our…

— Anonymous

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

— Daniel Defoe