You can make money without doing evil.

I swear I walk with God, but the devil keeps following.

Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.

Believe me, you cannot stand still in your souls. Habits of good or evil are daily strengthening in your hearts. Every day you are either getting nearer to God, or further off.

The love of the bible will show itself in a believer’s readiness to bear evil as well as to do good. It will make him patient under provocation, forgiving when injured, meek when unjustly attacked, quiet when slandered. It will make him hear much, put up with much and look over much, submit often and deny himself often, all for the sake of peace.

People, even crazy, evil people, tended to believe they have a good reason for doing what they do. Though some consider religion the opiate of the masses, others use it to further their obsessions, or rationalize their crimes.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction

Nothing is black and white. There are no universal standards that determine what’s good and what’s evil. It’s subjective.

Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man’s belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

We ought to cherish the body. Our body’s substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement

That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy has not yet been discovered. Perhaps it is an evil inseparable from the good with which it is allied; perhaps it is a shoot which cannot be stripped from the stalk without wounding vitally the plant from which it is torn. However desirable those measures might be which might correct without enslaving the press, they have never yet been devised in America.

There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by…corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.

It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts.

Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace: take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil-smelling place

Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass… to stand up against such social evils.

First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And secondly there is a need of higher amounts of political will. There is a need of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children on this planet.

Boy, you’re good at figuring things out. Isn’t he? Except that if anybody’s the devil in this room it’s _you_, buster.” An extraordinary bitterness came into his face. “I’ve seen you before. I know you, all right, preacher man. Age after age, you come back. You always lead the crusades. You’re so damned golden-tongued, other people just flock to die for your causes. You die with them, it’s true, because you’re stupid enough to believe your own great lies; but you always come back again somehow. Oh, I know _you_.

No one deserves good or evil fortune,” said Lady Beatrice. “Things simply happen and one survives them the best one can.

Honestly, I’m willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I’m given. But ultimately, it’s the producer’s decision. But, I’ve done a variety of roles – the evil don, the evil husband… I’ve done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.

And that’s how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity.

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all

Government is a necessary evil

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients – or their lack – and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair

There are horrors beyond life’s edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man’s evil prying calls them just within our range.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Sunday school: a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

Venice is a Dorian Gray city. Somewhere up there in the world’s attic, there’s another place with the haggard, poxed and ravaged face of unspeakable evil. And I suspect it’s Cardiff

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. […] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.

Evil is whatever distracts.

I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

What saith Antisthenes? Hast thou never heard?— It is a kingly thing, O Cyrus, to do well and to be evil spoken of.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

The Charter was regarded as important because it assigned definite and practical remedies to temporary evils. There was very little that was abstract in its terms, less even than later generations supposed…. A King had been brought to order, not by a posse of reactionary feudalists, but the community of the land under baronial leadership; a tyrant had been subjected to the laws which hitherto it had been his private privilege to administer and to modify at will. A process had begun which was to end in putting the power of the Crown into the hands of the community at large.

If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you’ve never tried before.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one’s own secret sin didn’t matter.

Good land, evill way.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.

Most “necessary evils” are far more evil than necessary.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.

I thought that a Jewish state would be free of the evils afflicting other societies: theft, murder, prostitution… But now we have them all. And that’s a thing that cuts to the heart.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.

Shut your evil mucus-hole you truth terrorist. You LOSE every time a mirror implodes from your barbed and gristle image.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good

Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin’s; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can’t isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men’s lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

Ceasing to do evil, cultivating the good, purifying the heart: this is the teaching of the Buddhas.

There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Each human being shall have all of these in him, and they will constitute his nature. In some, there will be high and fine characteristics which will submerge the evil ones, and those will be called good men; in others the evil characteristics will have dominion, and those will be called bad men.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Too many people, when they reject God, go on believing in the devil. Many intellectuals have a sense of evil without a confidence in good.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

The evil ones have roused a mighty nation, a mighty land. And for however long it takes, I am determined that we will prevail. And prevail we must, because we fight for one thing, and that is the freedom of our people, and the freedom of people everywhere.

Evil knows no holiday.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

Evil does not exist in guerrilla warfare but only in the unorganized and undisciplined activities that are anarchism.

Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It’s not racism and “this-ism” and “that-ism”; it’s our thirst and hunger for money. And that’s where all the bodies are buried.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. There were passions in him that would find their terrible outlet, dreams that would make the shadow of their evil real

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It’s not racism and “this-ism” and “that-ism”; it’s our thirst and hunger for money. And that’s where all the bodies are buried.

Not all evils can be rectified, but ongoing evils surely should stop.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Evil is real – but so is God’s power and love.

War’s greatest evil—the degradation of the human spirit.

From what I gather in reading ancient texts, right up to the present, human beings have always been confronted by the same kinds of problems. I think that this world is not a realm that admits to a solution. That isn’t what this world is about. It’s a different kind of activity that we have here. We have to deal with good and evil continually. With joy and despair, with all the antinomies, all the opposites and contraries. That’s what our life is about. We can’t abdicate that.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.

The canter is a cure for every evil.

A canter is the cure for all evil.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

A touch from your real love, it’s like heaven taking the place of something evil.

A benightedly retrospective gentleman who is asked to forget the difference between the sexes in order that he may forget the difference between good and evil.

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others

The love of money is the root of all evil.

Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

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.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding

They say the money’s the root of all evil, I say, ‘I need some money just to see if it’s true.

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.