“Evil contained is not evil destroyed.”

“She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.”

“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

“Destroying Kabaa stone by stone, is less evil than killing a single Muslim…”

“Stalinism, as we have seen, contains all of the evils of Nazism and Fascism, most of them in extremer form.”

“If when we judged others, our real motive was to destroy evil, we should look for evil where it is certain to be found, and that is in our own hearts. But if we are on the look-out for evil in others, our real motive is obviously to justify ourselves.”

“When evil assembles into a group, good must duplicate their efforts; for without an equal counter force of protection, evil shall destroy those who stand alone, one at a time.”

“Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.”

“But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.”

“It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.”