“Ever since that troublemaker Eve handed that gullible Adam the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they say,… — Mirabai Starr Copy Share Image
I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“What I was referring to was not religion as such, but a special category of abstractions, the most exalted one, which, for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Political realism refuses to identify the moral aspirations of a particular nation with the moral laws that govern the universe. As it… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“If your mind and spirit are seduced by images of windswept ridge tops, flutters of aspen leaves caressed by a canyon breeze… — Reid Lance Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“The choice between good and evil is all a matter of doctrine. In reality, one always has to choose between the greater… — Osho Copy Share Image
“Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there was no answer right from the start. Humans lose sight of this... They fear the truth that they cannot comprehend.… — Kaori Yuki Copy Share Image
“This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different:… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“The veil of forgetfulness that divides eternity in two has its own powerful justifications. Philip Barlow, a modern religious scholar, has written… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
“You are at the same time, a god and a demon. When the god in you lacks nourishment, the demon gets hold… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“You who wronged a simple man Bursting into laughter at the crime, And kept a pack of fools around you To mix… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
“Our way–the Western Way–has always been a "work in progress." Questions of life and death, good and evil, justice and tragedy–these are… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“It is in the context of this mid-Sasanian era edict reported by Elishe that the myth of Zurvan as hypostatized “Time” is… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
I will not b influenced by what ppl say r do I will seek to establish an identity of my own.I love… — Wk Copy Share Image
“Soldier and civilian, they died in their tens of thousands because death had been concocted for them, morality hitched like a halter… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“How, in such an alien and inhuman world, can so powerless a creature as man preserve his aspirations untarnished? A strange mystery… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Politics had seemed to become, even well before the age of Trump, a mortal affair. It was now zero-sum: When one side… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he… — David Denby Copy Share Image
“The saviour answered...and said, If you want to be perfect, you will keep these teachings. If not, you deserve to be called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Corporate interests raised a nearly unified voice heralding automation as a certain and universal beneficial advancement. However, some observers saw the new… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
One reason for the decline in moral values is that the world has invented a new, constantly changing and undependable standard of… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
“It’s no secret that we all live within a damning illusion called denial. We are doomed by our own far-reaching imaginations and… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is,… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them… — Barbara Cooney Copy Share Image
“If the followers of the Oversoul are kept blind, if they can't judge the Oversoul's purpose for themselves, then they aren't freely… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“There is an important insight contained in the book of Genesis, concerning the loss of eros when the body takes over. Adam… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Within the infant rind of this small flower Poison hath residence and medicine power. For this, being smelt, with that part cheers… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image