“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
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
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
“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
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
“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 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
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
“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
“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
“Say to my friends, when they look upon me, dead, Weeping for me and mourning me in sorrow, ‘Do not believe that… — Abu Hamid al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“He is with me wherever I go' said Quirrell quietly. 'I met him when I traveled around the world. A foolish young… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“The Battle of Good and Evil Polytheism gave birth not merely to monotheist religions, but also to dualistic ones. Dualistic religions espouse… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“In this world, evil can arise from the best intentions. And there is good that can come from evil intentions. How then… — Ichirō Ōkouchi Copy Share Image
“Sully disapproved of destruction for destruction's sake, which seemed ever more popular in the modern world, but he always took delight in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The Average Occidental- be he a democrat or a Fascist, a Capitalist or a Bolshevik, a manual worker or an intellectual- knows… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
“There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it.… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and and should do is to seek truth and to… — St. Maximilian Kolbe Copy Share Image
“Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents--were they the stuff… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The Genesis story of the reason why Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden of Eden was not that they… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“I am a conservative in large part because I believe that politics should intrude on life as little as possible. Conservatives surely… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“There are more than straight good and evil, aye, even more than law or disorders or fence-sittin'. There's prejudice, whimsey, affection, superstition,… — Eve Forward Villains By Necessity Copy Share Image
“The difference between good and evil is a matter of profundity. Which is nearer you, self-love and its immorality or love and… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“Open them, weak yet proud man, pitiful ant that struggles to crawl over its speck of dust! You declare yourself free and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Beyond the pursuit of meaning and beyond good and evil too, she says. See, it’s a daily chore tryin to do the… — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“It is a good rule of thumb for spiritual directors to ask themselves, What truly constitutes our spiritual concern here? Am I… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“As Einstein said, 'If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image