Character Quote by J. Edgar Hoover

If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times,…

— Clint Eastwood

When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.

— J. Edgar Hoover

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

— Joseph Heller

“As the historian Richard Gid Powers has noted, J. Edgar Hoover found in Progressivism an approach that reflected his own obsession with organization and…

— David Grann

What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.

— Babe Ruth

One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Morals had no place when it came to revenge”

— C.J. Roberts

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush…

— Vasily Grossman

“Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had…

— T.M. Williams

“Whatever path we take, the first step is to acknowledge the complexity of the dilemma and to accept that simplistically dividing the past into…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“History teaches us that ordinary people can grow accustomed to horrible, normally unthinkable acts—what”

— Daniel E. Lieberman

“History is a record of good choices and bad, the people who made them, and the consequences of those choices.”

— John Edgell