Ethics Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer…

— Jorge Luis Borges

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That…

— Simone Weil

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people…

— Michel Houellebecq

Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations.…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

— Blaise Pascal

The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.

— Amish Tripathi

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

— Samuel Johnson

Evil is in antagonism with the entire creation.

— Heinrich Zschokke

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

— Epictetus

Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson