“Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on so that they are ready to do evil.”

“May we not say, perhaps, that the evil man is annihilated because he wished to be annihilated, or that he did not wish strongly enough to eternalize himself because he was evil? May we say that it is not believing in the other life which causes a man to be good, but rather that being good causes him believe in it? And what is being good and being evil? These states belong to the sphere of ethics, not of religion; or rather, does not the doing good though being evil pertain to ethics, and the being good [forgivable] though doing evil, to religion?”

“The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.”

“We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.”

“Good people can't out-think evil, 'cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do.”

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

“…I say, therefore, that the men who founded Judaism were not impelled by evil, selfish motives, but goaded on by a demoniacal power…”

“The evil that men do lives after them. Yes, and a good deal of the evil that they never did as well.”

“Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.”

“Any number of lies will serve a rich and evil man.”