Cloaks Quote by Bertrand Russell

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.

— Jeremy Collier

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Allow the purity of evil to guide you.

— The Undertaker

Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil…

— James Madison

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

— D. H. Lawrence

All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be…

— Terry Pratchett

“Anything that inhibits, impedes, or prevents this movement toward the Ultimate Complexity is evil. The wonderful thing about this definition of good and evil…

— Gregory David Roberts

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

— Epictetus

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the…

— Horace Mann

It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

— Michael Swanwick

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most…

— Andrew McCarthy