Quotes about good and evil
192 quotes from 117 people
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), p.34Good deeds remain good, no matter whether we know how the world was made or not.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), Section 9: Ethical OutlookNo evil can be excused because it is done with a good intention.
Thomas Aquinas1225–1274On the Ten Commandments (c. 1273), Art. 1
Hannah Arendt1906–1975The Life of the Mind (1978), “Thinking”- Hannah Arendt1906–1975Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), Epilogue
Margaret Atwoodborn 1939The Progressive interview (2010)Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. Auden1907–1973Another Time (1940), “People and Places”, XIII: “Herman Melville”
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950“Kurukshetra” in Essays on the Gita (1995), p. 39
Philip James Bailey1816–1902Festus (1839), ProemThe finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.
Charles Baudelaire1821–1867“Le Joueur généreux” (1864), in Le Spleen de Paris- Charles Baudelaire1821–1867Le Spleen de Paris (1862), XXVIII: “La Fausse Monnaie”
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
