For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defense, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush.

The main battlefield of good is not the open ground of the publis arena, but the small clearing of each heart.

Evil exists only when its known. Adam and Eve were public in their fall. To sin in private is not to sin at all

There is evil! It's actual, like cement.

I can't believe it. I can't stand it.

Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself.

Evil is loose in the world. I have to go.” “I don’t believe in evil. Mistakes, yes. Not evil.” “Then perhaps you are afraid to believe it exists. It exists wherever men are.

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

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

Evil is ignorance.

Evil is a by-product of forgetfulness, laziness, or distraction: it arises when we lose sight of our true aim in life

Evil is the absence of God.

Evil is non-being, the good is being, since it has come into being from the existing God

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.

Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the <i>evil inside a human being</i> (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.