204 quotes
“The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.”
"The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being."
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"You must not change one thing one pebble one grain of sand until you know what good and evil will follow on that act."
— Ursula K. LeGuin
"The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods."
— Thomas Merton
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."
— Thomas Mann
"...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly..."
— Socrates
"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."
"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked."
— Saint Augustine
"The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good."
— Pope Benedict XVI
"After the evil spirit of a narrow Scholastic orthodoxy has been driven out, in the end seven much more wicked spirits return in its place."
"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."
— Plutarch
"Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age."
— Percy Shelley
"But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell."
— Neal Shusterman
"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good."
— Martin Luther King
"The time is always right to do the right thing."
— Martin Luther
"Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law."
— Lao Tzu
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
— John Stuart Mill
"And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices."
— George Orwell
"The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man."
— David Hume
"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."