Evil Quote by John Locke

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

— John Locke

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity…

— John Steinbeck

The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport…

— Voltaire

Evil gains work their punishment.

— Sophocles

We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then…

— Philip Zimbardo

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to…

— Alexander Hamilton

“The idea of good and evil has thus nothing to do with religion or a mystic conscience. It is a natural need of animal…

— Peter Kropotkin

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

“no misery to be saved from . . . So evil is necessary, in order to the highest happiness of the creature, and the completeness of…

— Austin Fischer

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be…

— Jakob Bohme

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

— Benjamin Haydon