Crucible Quote by William Peter Blatty

To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.

— J. Budziszewski

Evil is that which one believes of others.

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Meher Baba

I think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good.

— Guillermo del Toro

Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.

— Herman Melville

Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

— David Morrissey

For something to be completely evil is to be nothing. Satan has good attributes - intelligence, for instance - but they are corrupted. I…

— Scott Derrickson

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

— John Henry Newman

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

— Epictetus

Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which…

— Vernon Howard

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

— Richard Powers

Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

— James Tiptree Jr