Quotes of: Greater-evil Keyword

How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?

The Book of Ivy

I do no damage. This is damage, this.” He picked up a paper from Camille’s desk. “I can’t read your writing, but I take it the general tenor is that Brissot should go and hang himself.

A Place of Greater Safety

He feared, in his secret heart, that one day in company the baby would sit up and speak; that it would engage his eyes, appraise him, and say, 'You prick.

A Place of Greater Safety

The prose,” Robespierre said. “It’s so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant every other word. That was his style.

A Place of Greater Safety

Practice holding labels lightly as leaders so you have greater range in your behaviors and are more adaptable and effective in a greater range of situations.

Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead

Ethical vegetarians eat only plant-based food in order to show compassion toward animals and other humans and to benefit the planet.

Yoga and Vegetarianism: The Path to Greater Health and Happiness

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the oth...

Stranger in a Strange Land

Some of you say, 'Joy is greater thar sorrow,' and others say, 'Nay, sorrow is the greater.' But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits, alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your be...

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet by

I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are no...

Jonathan Glazer

The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevita...

Annie Besant

I believe in violence, I believe violence can be solved by greater violence. I also know greater violence breeds more violence. I’m certain now, that violence is like energy; it can’t be destroyed, it will always be passed on, as it will be done ...

Love

The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus' hands.

The Cost of Discipleship

Never concede to evil…. When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

The Courtship of Princess Leia

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.

Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil

What's next? You want to convince me they're making another crap Last Airbender movie?

The Evil We Love

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

People always have reason to hate, though they often may not find any reason for love.

Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.

Heaven and Earth

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Samuel Butler

Life is not a matter for simple optimism--for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism--for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.

The Art of Counseling

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians