If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.
Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of speading even against it.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.
Charity begins at home.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a terrible warning.
Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
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.
Let problems make you better, not bitter.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Every man is his own hell.
For good, return good. For evil, return justice.
Don't confuse what you got a right to do with what's right to do.
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Good men are like wine, some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong.
Maybe there is a beast.... maybe it's only us.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body.
All gods and devils that have ever existed are within us.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong, they are conflicts between two rights.
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life.
I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do in order to do good.
Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.
A Terrorist is a man with a bomb but no aircraft to drop it from.
