Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. (Quote by - Buddha)

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. Indeed life is a have to defend and protect ourselves, and with a cheerful and brace spirit we must battle; we plan and calculate in order to make progress. (Quote by - Vincent van Gogh)

Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts. (Quote by - Dante)

The generality of men are naturally swayed more by fear than by reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. (Quote by - Aristotle)

From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness. (Quote by - Book of Common Prayer)

And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, LORD, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me? / For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all. (Quote by - Bible)

To know the difference between good and evil, you need to have been through good and evil, therefor be good and evil. (Quote by - Magdalena Leska)

Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. (Quote by - Cervantes)

They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever: / And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. (Quote by - Bible)

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. (Quote by - Seneca)

It is well worth the efforts of a life-time to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil . . . which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist . . . (Quote by - Elizabeth Blackwell)

When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in. (Quote by - William James)

I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead. (Quote by - Bible)

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor. (Quote by - Dennis Prager)

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm. (Quote by - Brian Masters)

The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief. (Quote by - Ted Rall)

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher. (Quote by - Giacomo Casanova)

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)

Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil (Quote by - Seneca)