Evil

See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil.

Only Evil and Greater Evil exist and beyond them, in the shadows, lurks True Evil. And sometimes True Evil seizes you by the throat and demands that you choose between it and another, slightly lesser, Evil.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all.

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

Today Evil acts according to rights–because it is entitled to. It acts according to peace treaties, because it was taken into consideration when the treaties were being written …

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides.

He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety.

A tiger can smile
A snake will say it loves you
Lies make us evil

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realise his conception of the beautiful.