“It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?”— Bram Stoker
“One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.”— W. E. B. Du Bois
“Doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self.”— Robert Jay Lifton
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men are quite capable of every wickedness.”— Felix Adler
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”— Hannah Arendt
“The war against terrorism is a war against evil. It's not a war against a religion, or a culture, or a country. It's a war against evil.”— Richard Armitage
“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”— W. H. Auden
“Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.”— Alain Badiou
“The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us.”— William Peter Blatty
“Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us... the observers.”— William Peter Blatty