Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely… — Nicole Peeler Copy Share Image
My answer would be definite yes! Destructive atheism, in my view and the view of the Church, is part of a much… — Gerard Verschuuren Copy Share Image
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery.… — Sam Kutesa Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Sociopaths are not usually physically violent. A typical sociopath never kills anybody and doesn't look like Charles Manson - they look like… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The other three incoming calls were from his building superintendent, his pharmacy and a telephone survey company." "Bastards. They always call during… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West… — Aleksandr Dugin Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
When we deconstruct how radical evil occurs we realize that it is anything but spontaneous combustion. You need pyromaniacs. — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil. — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I would never say they look exactly the same, but what I would say is that the differences are not enough to… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones. — Jennifer Lee Carrell Copy Share Image
“We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.” — Travis Berketa Copy Share Image
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“Patrice had long since buried the particulars of events so painful that they caused her to resolve only to see good. With… — Judith Spencer Copy Share Image
We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart;… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. The inherent vice of capitalism… — Sir Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image