“Good and evil are not static; they are dynamic. Each one continually feeds on itself just like compound interest in the bank.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Day-to-day acts of service, whether for good or evil, may not seem important, but they are building cords of love that become… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“You're only two handshakes away from evil… Maybe it's the same thing with goodness. We're never far from what's good… It doesn't… — A.J. Kazinski Copy Share Image
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Just take it from me," Donovan said. "Stay well clear of the warden. Some here think he's the devil. I don't, I… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“never believed in demons or monsters lurking under my bed. But lately I’ve started to wonder if evil hasn’t in fact infiltrated… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I recognized that there are some well-known, little understood, and seldom practiced laws that we must live by if we wish to… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Honestly, I never thought we'd get a nomination for a Grammy, period. To be honest, we felt that if we were ever… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The power, it seduced, whispering to me to weave it into my own cells." A glance over his shoulder. "Before you, I… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
When a person, group, or a government is speaking of necessary evils they must first realize that no evil is truly necessary.… — Aaron Lee Copy Share Image
There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility… — John Simon Copy Share Image
The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the Ripper: its a mystery, which is… — Jerome Flynn Copy Share Image
There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good,… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Fear is the devil's most powerful tool because he can't always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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