Arise Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“And so sovereign Providence has often produced a remarkable effect--evil men making other evil men good. For some, when they think they suffer injustice…

— Boethius

Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.

— Severinus of Noricum

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

— Knut Hamsun

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

— Daniel Defoe

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that…

— Amelia Barr

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

— Samuel Butler

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be…

— Vernor Vinge

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the…

— Amelia Barr

Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted…

— Calvin Coolidge

“Fortunately, as human history has shown, it is not unusual for good to come of evil, less is said about the evil that can…

— Jose Saramago

Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover…

— Blaise Pascal

“Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings