Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or…

Reason is necessary. It is necessary to deal with the world.

— Frederick Lenz

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral…

— Mary Ritter Beard

Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations.…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to…

— Nikolas Schreck

“Your moral code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to…

— Ayn Rand

“This night the woman of his belittling deprecations was thinking how great and good her husband was. But over them both there hung a…

— Thomas Hardy

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material,…

— Louise Erdrich

Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know…

— Gregory Maguire

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

— Antonia Fraser

While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our moral concepts,…

— Raimond Gaita

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear…

— Rich Mullins

“What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from…

— Ayn Rand

“We can distinguish the good from evil because we have a moral sense bred into us. This is what Paul meant when he said…

— Charles W. Colson