Action Quote by Eugene Ionesco

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

— Anonymous

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

— John Locke

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

— Benjamin Haydon

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of…

— Plutarch

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of…

— George Eliot

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature…

— Walter Lippmann

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

— Thomas Jefferson

Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit…

— Blaise Pascal

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good.

— Pope Francis