Quotes of: Moral-evil Keyword

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Maximilien Robespierre

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Plutarch

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Saint Augustine

People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.

Sebastian Horsley

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

William Blake

I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

Wilhelm Steinitz

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Doris Lessing

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Tertullian

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Albert Einstein

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Horace Mann

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

Josephine Baker

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

David Wilkerson

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

Seth Gordon

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Francois Rabelais

True evil is always petty and often incompetent.

Claire Chilton

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Henny Youngman

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

Billy Graham