We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent; his base...
Dr. Sam Loomis: I met him, fifteen years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding; and even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child, with th...
Evil is done by the living.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
Evil is not good's absence but gravity's everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.
Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.
I don't suppose it would help if I told you that is the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.
He had memorized the entire Qur'an and lectured on the nature of evil, which, like a shadow, cannot exist independently of the good silhouettes.
Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.
Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.
Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.
Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for "instrumental thinking." But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.
Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.
Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.
...or perhaps about acknowledging that life is a delicate balance of great forces, and that good would lose its potency if there was no evil left to fight in the world.
My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?...
I believe that there is good in everyone, even an evil pirate such as you.
In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.
I am one of those who think, like , that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn't contribute to either, the good or evil.
