Character Quote by Madame de Stael

Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have…

— African Spir

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine…

— Tryon Edwards

“It must, I think, be admitted that the evils of the world are due to moral defects quite as much as to lack of…

— Bertrand Russell

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest…

— Adam Rapp

“People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.

— Carl Jung

The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.

— Katsuki Sekida

Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has…

— Jane Addams

“Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgements which people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be…

— Donald Robertson

Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience.

— John of Kronstadt

Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness…

— Laozi