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1. "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in this world is for enough good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke

2. "Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil."

Jean-Paul Sartre

3. "The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question."

Jean-Paul Sartre, "Anti-Semite and Jew"

4. "You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be."

Johann Kaspar Lavater

5. "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

6. "It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy."

Albert Einstein

7. "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live."

Socrates

Quotations about: Life and Death

8. "Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger - according to the way you react to it."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Mere Christianity"

9. "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

Benjamin Disraeli

Quotations about: Human

10. "One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Father Brown Mystery Series"

11. "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Albert Einstein

12. "Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of both."

Samuel Butler, "The Note-Books of Samuel Butler"

13. "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."

Abraham Lincoln

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

14. "Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control."

Arthur Schopenhauer, "Studies in Pessimism"

15. "Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it."

François de La Rochefoucauld

16. "It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good."

Helen Keller, "The Simplest Way to be Happy"

Quotations about: Happiness

17. "The time is always right to do what is right."

Martin Luther King

18. "There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."

Michel de Montaigne

Quotations about: Justice -:- Law and Crime

19. "If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times."

St. Augustine of Hippo

20. "Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment."

Clive Staples Lewis, "The Problem of Pain"

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21. "He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."

Rabindranath Tagore

22. "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

Socrates

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

23. "The best is the enemy of the good."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), Philosophical Dictionary

24. "Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness."

Michel de Montaigne

Quotations about: Trust

25. "I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

Quotations about: God and Religion

26. "I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Human

27. "Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Le Siecle de Louis XIV"

Quotations about: Human

28. "He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Love

29. "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

Bertrand Russell, "What I Believe"

Quotations about: Love -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

30. "Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."

Aldous Huxley

31. "A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man."

William Hazlitt

32. "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

Thomas Mann

Quotations about: Law and Crime

33. "There are positive pluses and negative pluses."

Lech Walesa

34. "That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good."

Jean de La Bruyere

35. "The attempt to produce Heaven on Earth often produces Hell."

Karl Popper

36. "The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.."

Heinrich Heine

Quotations about: Richness and Money

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