"There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen

"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good." - W. H. Auden, A Certain World

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke, attributed

"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness." - Confucius

"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible." - Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

"Nothing is evil which is according to nature." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else." - Sivananda

"An Apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Note-Books

"Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And `twill be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation."
- DANIEL DEFOE, The True-Born Englishman

"It is stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it." - RONALD KNOX, Let Dons Delight

"The spirit that I have seen
May be the devil: and the devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape."
- SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

"Evil is unspectacular and always human
And shares our bed and eats at our own table."
- W.H. AUDEN, Herman Melville

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - JOSEPH CONRAD, Under Western Eyes

"No one ever suddenly became depraved." - JUVENAL, Satires

"So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear,
Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost;
Evil be thou my Good."
- JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before." - MAE WEST, in the film Klondike Annie

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." - MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, A Vindication of the Rights of Men

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise." - Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)

"But, by all thy nature's weakness, Hidden faults and follies known, Be thou, in rebuking evil, Conscious of thine own." - Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)