Quotes about good and evil
192 quotes from 117 people
Herbert Spencer1820–1903First Principles (1862), Pt. I, The Unknowable- Herbert Spencer1820–1903Social Statics (1851), Part I, Ch. 2: The Evanescence of Evil, § 1
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Speech in Hartford, Connecticut (18 September 1952)
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the CaseIn contextAll human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the CaseIn contextThe world seems full of good men—even if there are monsters in it.
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
It is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Fireflies (1928), 25“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural,” answered Miss Rebecca. “I’m no angel.”
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
