Since man always remains free and since his freedom is always fragile, the kingdom of good will never be definitively established in this world. Anyone who promises the better world that is guaranteed to last...

Remember, I am always 12 steps ahead..

Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.

Let us dedicate this new era to mothers around the world, and also to the mother of all mothers — Mother Earth. It is up to us to keep building bridges to bring the world...

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

Innocence could be lost more than once after all.

Never underestimate the power of good but never ignore evil lurking in the hearts of men.Rose of Life

normal,” sane men and women are capable of evil, then the atrocities perpetrated during the Holocaust and other genocides could be repeated today and into the future.Yet, this is exactly the lesson we must learn...

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

Well, no one says you can be happy about everything,” I said. “I know I should be glad for you, Megan, but frankly I think you’re crazy. And if Reverend Marshall is making you this...

To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.

The seeds of salvation are buried in every act of evil.

If I’ve learned one thing, it’s that the unfortunate thing about life is that everything’s mixed. There’s no absolute good and there’s no absolute evil. There’s just a lot of confusion.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

The notion that evil is non-rational is a more significant claim for Eagleton than at first appears, because he is (in this book [On Evil] as in others of his recent ‘late period’ prolific burst)...

Evil can be undone, but it cannot “develop” into good

Evil requires no reason.

I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me – that’s...

Is there any one of us who doesn’t want to strike back at all the evil in this world?

The difficulties of life do not have to be unbearable. It is the way we look at them – through faith or unbelief – that makes them seem so. We must be convinced that our...

Evil” is an inverted anagram of “live.” As we live our life, learn to tame our own private demons and conquer evil with a good, pure, humble, courageous, patient heart.

Evan no longer tells people I fight bad guys for a living. When asked, he tells his friends that his dad talks on the phone a lot and vacuums on occasion.

It is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In fact, unless the faith is vigilantly and regularly checked by a sense of man’s fallibility, it is likely...

The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the...

It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of...

You take evil for good. It’s a passing crisis. It’s the result of your illness, perhaps.- You do despise me! It’s simply that I don’t want to do good, I want to do evil, and...

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a...

We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the...

Justice doesn’t talk. It sings!

We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil’s power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.

We… we are basically good.””Haven’t you been paying attention, Littlepip? Deep inside, we’re all raiders.””No! That’s not true.””No? Even the best of us fall to evil at the drop of a hat.

By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.

Do not imagine that the good you intend will balance the evil you perform

I’ve an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and joys of others only in their relationship to me, as food to sustain my spiritual powers. I am no...

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

Nothingness…there in this placewhere nothingness takesbut for the glimmera steadfast shimmerall would be consumed…

For its survival, the satanic cult demanded secrecy and obedience while it made brutality, even killing, appropriate. Denial and disavowal were inevitable responses to required behaviors so bizarre as to seem unreal, even to those...

Buy a gift for a dog, and you’ll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don’t have anything to offer to it, it won’t even recognize your arrival;...

To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.

Even good men can preform evil deeds.

He sees it as a battle between good and evil. He sees it as the evil being the acts of individuals, not the acts of any religion or affiliation with any religion,

The root of humanly caused evil is not man’s animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the...

Love permeates all and energizes life.Even evil has love. If not, she is dead.

The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.

It’s now what enters men’s mouths that’s evil. It’s what comes out of their mouths that is.