The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Evil spelled backward is live.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.