Quotes about good and evil
192 quotes from 117 people
Arthur Miller1915–2005Paris Review (Summer 1966)Be frustrate, all ye stratagems of Hell,
And devilish machinations come to nought.
John Milton1608–1674Paradise Regained (1671), Book I: Lines 72-73Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
Virtue in her shape how lovely- MMuhammad571–632Muwatta of Imam Malik, Speech, hadith 21
Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964The Unity of India: Collected Writings, 1937-1940 (1942), p. 280- Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964The Discovery of India (1946)
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Beyond Good and Evil (1886), Chapter IV, aphorism 153, tr. Helen ZimmernIn contextI have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Part II, Chapter 13Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
William Penn1644–1718Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), nos. 537–539The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato429–349 BCAttributed to Plato on the letterhead of the Constitution Party. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations compiled by The Library of Congress. Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications, 2010.No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato429–349 BCApology, 41c–eThe greatest penalty of evildoing is to grow into the likeness of bad men.
Plato429–349 BCDialogues, TheatetusI was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
