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

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

2. "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

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

Stephen King

Quotations about: Various

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

George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil"

Quotations about: Various

6. "The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are."

Karl Kraus

7. "What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil"

Quotations about: Love

8. "The real genres: good and bad."

Franz Grillparzer, "Poems"

9. "If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers."

Charles Dickens, "The Old Curiosity Shop"

Quotations about: Law and Crime

10. "There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

11. "Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged."

St. Jerome, "Epistulae"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience -:- Work and Laziness

12. "Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

George Santayana

Quotations about: Various

13. "Man is neither angel nor beast, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would play the angel plays the beast."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: Human

14. "Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm."

Brian Masters

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

15. "The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "Meditations on Quixote"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

16. "There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless."

William Somerset Maugham, "The Summing Up"

17. "Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced."

Aldous Huxley, "Grey Eminence"

18. "On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

George Orwell, "Collected Essays"

19. "Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."

Aldous Huxley, "Time Must Have a Stop"

20. "Tolerance is only another name for indifference."

William Somerset Maugham, "A Writer's Notebook"

Quotations about: Egoism -:- Friendship and Hostility

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21. "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

22. "War is not a true adventure. It is a mere ersatz. Where ties are established, where problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Flight to Arras"

Quotations about: Peace and War

23. "Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble."

Arabic proverb

24. "When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journals"

Quotations about: Patriotism

25. "Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil."

Ralph Venning

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

26. "One kind word can warm three winter months."

Japanese proverb

Quotations about: Various

27. "In time of war, the devil makes more room in hell."

German proverb

Quotations about: Peace and War

28. "To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it."

Ayn Rand

29. "He who stops being better stops being good."

Oliver Cromwell

30. "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

Steve Biko

Quotations about: Justice

31. "Hands that help are holier than lips that pray."

Sathya Sai Baba

Quotations about: Various

32. "Music can change the world because it can change people."

Bono (U2)

Quotations about: Art and Culture

33. "Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."

Jerry Garcia

34. "Of two evils, choose neither."

Charles Spurgeon

35. "Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

Thomas Fuller

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

36. "I believe in compulsory cannibalism... if people were forced to eat what they kill, we would have no more wars."

Abbie Hoffman

Quotations about: Peace and War

37. "If you talk to gangsters long enough, you'll find out that they're just as bad as respectable people."

Murray Kempton

Quotations about: Law and Crime

38. "Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community."

St. Thomas Aquinas, "Summa Theologiae"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement -:- Law and Crime

39. "Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms."

George Savile

40. "The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress."

Philip Roth

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

41. "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."

Jim Elliot

Quotations about: Various

42. "The next time the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future."

Anon.

Quotations about: Time and Passing

43. "In doing nothing men learn to do evil."

Cato the Elder

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

44. "The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."

Francis Herbert Bradley

45. "The world is composed of givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better."

Anon.

Quotations about: Justice

46. "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist."

Charles Baudelaire

47. "Don't let anybody walk trough your mind with dirty feet."

Mahatma Gandhi

48. "Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values."

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

49. "Good and evil keep very exact accounts [...] and the face of every man is their ledger."

James Branch Cabell

50. "If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart."

proverb

Quotations about: Richness and Money

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