Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy. Lowell.
Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. B. R. Haydon.
Evil is merely privative, not absolute; it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Emerson.
Evil is wrought by want of thought / As well 30 as want of heart. T. Hood.
Evil, like a rolling stone upon a mountain-top, / A child may first impel, a giant cannot stop. Trench.
Evil men understand not judgment, but they that seek the Lord understand all things. Bible.
Evil news rides post, while good news bates. Milton.
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers. J. Roux.
Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while 35 man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can give it, is precisely the dark, disordered material out of which man's freewill has to create an edifice of order and good. Ever must pain urge us to labour; and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us. Carlyle.
Evils can never pass away; for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good. Plato.