If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.
I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
It is not good practice to become intrigued by Satan and his mysteries. No good can come from getting close to evil.
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
When evil men destroy, good men must build and bind.
Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at 'I Dream of Jeannie' - I mean, he's a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award.
It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.
I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.
I understand the protests, but not the shooting and the attempts to bring down the state. We cannot allow hatred to control our lives. We must remain unified to defeat this evil.
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?
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?
Voting for a candidate solely because of that candidate's support for abortion or against him or her solely on the basis of his or her race is to promote an intrinsic evil. To do so consciously is indeed sinful. That is behavior incompatible with being a Christian.
