For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You see, one strand...of anarchism believed that you needed to use essentially homeopathic doses of terror by assassinating people, et cetera, the… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
The movement of the Spirit of God in the hearts of men and women often calls them to act against the spirit… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated. — Dagobert D. Runes Copy Share Image
Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
The words you've bandied are sufficient; 'Tis deeds that I prefer to see. [Ger., Der Worte sind genug gewechselt, Lasst mich auch… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of… — Bill Courtney Copy Share Image
Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt. — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable...… — Ovadia Yosef Copy Share Image
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Fire and water do not mix, neither can you mix judgment of others with the desire to repent. If a man commits… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
