Good & Evil Quotes

All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Life -- the way it really is -- is a battle not between bad and good but between bad and worse.

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.