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How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?
I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation".
I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.
Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
Rock 'n' roll started to make so much money and generated so much income for the record companies that suddenly it was no longer evil.
None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.
A mark of stupidity is a belief that one party is totally virtuous and correct on the issues while the other is evil and always wrong.
That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.
It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.
It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.
Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong.
The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.
Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?" "Is that including, or not including you?
You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.
We judge everything as good or evil and forget that resistance, pain and difficulties are there so we can learn when we leave balance.
Mr. Chairman, when I contemplate the evils of apartheid, my heart bleeds and I am sure the heart of every true blooded African bleeds.
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.
She's a devil, she's an angel, she's a woman, she's a child. She's a heartache when she leaves you, but she'll leave you with a smile.
Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]
Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us... But we are so lobed and valued that he was willing to due for us.
Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.
But evil fortune has decreed, (The foe of mice as well as men) The royal mouse at last should bleed, Should fall ne'er to arise again.
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.
He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.
Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.
... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.
Mini-Me was the pint sized clone that was the perpetuation of Dr. Evil's own legacy [in Austin Powers]. That concept earned the sequel.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
When it was seen that many of the wicked seemed quite untroubled by evil conscience ... then the idea of future suffering was advanced.
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
I won't lie to you and make you believe what's evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way... the RIGHT way.