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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Boer War (1902)
- Wisdom
The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 3In context
- Good & Evil
I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 2In context
- Advice
- Good & Evil
I have been Heaven’s substitute to recompense the good⁠—now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume Two, Chapter 30In context
- Good & Evil
- Justice
Religion amplifies the good and evil tendencies of individual souls.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Progress In Religion (2000)
- Good & Evil
- Religion
The world would be in better shape if people would take the same pains in the practice of the simplest moral laws as they exert in intellectualizing over the most subtle moral questions.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach1830–1916Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 30.
All true morality, inward and outward, is comprehended in love, for love is the foundation of all the commandments.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon VII: Outward and Inward Morality
- Love
To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.
Adolf Eichmann1906–1962From his 1957 interviews with Willem Sassen in Argentina (before his capture), published in LIFE magazine (5 December 1960)
A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Religion and Science (1930)
- Anti-Religion
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Good & Evil
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949) edited by Paul A. Schilpp
I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Address to the Chicago Decalogue Society (20 February 1954)
- Talking
It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein1879–1955The Real Problem Is in the Hearts of Men, The New York Times Magazine (June 23, 1946)
- Good & Evil
To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein1879–1955What I Believe (1930)
- Happiness
Without “ethical culture,” there is no salvation for humanity.
Albert Einstein1879–1955“The Need for Ethical Culture”, message on the 75th anniversary of the Ethical Culture Society (5 January 1951)