There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Expectations are an evil thing.
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War was just ratcheting up. And so the Asian faces that I saw on the news, they were the face of the enemy. Asian men, particularly, were either small, ineffective, or they were evil. And those messages were deeply, deeply embedded in me for many years.
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit.
After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we've got to handle this with kid gloves. Don't go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you'll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.'
If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.
Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
