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1. "Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do."

Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Other Wind"

2. "Let problems make you better, not bitter."

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Quotations about: Question and Problem

3. "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."

Samuel Johnson

Quotations about: Human

4. "Every man is his own hell."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Human

5. "For good, return good. For evil, return justice."

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Quotations about: Justice

6. "Don't confuse what you got a right to do with what's right to do."

William Bennett

Quotations about: Law and Crime

7. "You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."

Indira Gandhi

8. "Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, "I can do no other"."

Heywood Broun

9. "Good men are like wine, some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."

Pope John XXIII

Quotations about: Human -:- Youth and Age

10. "Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

11. "Maybe there is a beast.... maybe it's only us."

William Golding, "Lord of the Flies"

Quotations about: Human

12. "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Edward Dahlberg

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Power and Weakness

13. "The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body."

Fulton John Sheen, "Peace of Soul"

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

14. "All gods and devils that have ever existed are within us."

Hermann Hesse, "Reflections"

Quotations about: Human

15. "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty."

Bertrand Russell

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

16. "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Law and Crime

17. "Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

18. "Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong, they are conflicts between two rights."

Friedrich Hebbel

Quotations about: Justice

19. "In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice."

Clive Staples Lewis, "God In The Dock"

Quotations about: Human -:- Nature and Animals

20. "Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life."

Albert Schweitzer

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Manners and Ethics

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21. "I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do in order to do good."

Robert McNamara

Quotations about: Human

22. "Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be."

Michael Josephson

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

23. "The descent to hell is easy, and those who begin by worshipping power soon worship evil."

Clive Staples Lewis, "The Allegory of Love"

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

24. "A Terrorist is a man with a bomb but no aircraft to drop it from."

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Quotations about: Peace and War -:- Various

25. "The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

26. "In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."

Mahatma Gandhi

27. "Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two."

John Cheever, "John Cheever: The Journals"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

28. "Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."

Charles Baudelaire

Quotations about: Art and Culture

29. "We keep seeking our angel, demons come unsought."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Power and Weakness -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia

30. "Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. "

Socrates

Quotations about: Life and Death

31. "A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains."

Maxim Gorky

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

32. "Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

Quotations about: Forgiveness -:- Memory

33. "Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote"

Quotations about: Human

34. "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

William Faulkner

Quotations about: Various

35. "Nature is goodness crystallized."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

36. "Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Quotations about: Authority, Government

37. "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

Socrates

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

38. "To change and change for the better are two different things."

German proverb

39. "Hell is other people."

Jean-Paul Sartre

40. "If you haven't got charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."

Bob Hope

41. "In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quotations about: Justice

42. "Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."

Raoul Walsh, "Klondike Annie"

43. "Our two eyes do not make our lot better; one serves us to see the good things, the other the evils of life. A lot of people have the bad habit of closing the first, and very few close the second."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "The One-Eyed Porter"

Quotations about: Human

44. "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Human

45. "So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?"

Ayn Rand

Quotations about: Richness and Money

46. "Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

47. "Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."

Denis Diderot, "Selected Writings"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

48. "The road to hell is paved with adverbs."

Stephen King

Quotations about: Various

49. "It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it."

George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"

50. "When you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil"

Quotations about: Various

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