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Patient endurance of evil does not mean a recognition of its rights. That is sheer sentimentality, and Jesus will have nothing to do with it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945The Cost of Discipleship (1937), “Revenge”, p. 142
- Christianity
- Good & Evil
I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Dedication of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (1991)
- Good & Evil
It is evil things that we will be fighting against⁠—brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution⁠—and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.
Neville Chamberlain1869–1940Broadcast from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street (3 September 1939)
- Good & Evil
- War & Peace
The world of today has achieved much, but for all its declared love for humanity, it has based itself far more on hatred and violence than on the virtues that make one human.
Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964The Discovery of India (1946)
- Good & Evil
- Virtue
Priestley was the first (unless it was Beccaria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth — that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham1748–1832“Extracts from Bentham’s Commonplace Book”, in Collected Works, x, p. 142
- Happiness
Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.
John Wesley1703–1791Sermons on Several Occasions (1771), Sermon 38, “A Caution against Bigotry”
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre, preface to the 2nd edition (21 December 1847)In context
- Religion
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946“Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”, The Nation and Athenaeum (October 1930)
- Money
Evil cannot perish without the destruction of much that lives by the evil, and it is no less destruction even if we personally are saved the pain of a sensational act of violence.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950“Kurukshetra” in Essays on the Gita (1995), p. 39
- Good & Evil
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
Giacomo Casanova1725–1798Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
- Experience
- Good & Evil
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
Gerald Stanley Lee1862–1944Crowds (1913), Book IV, Chapter X.
Terrorism undermines morality. Then, too, it undermines reason.
Martin Amis1949–2023“The Palace of the End” (2003)
No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.
Stefan Zweig1881–1942Beware of Pity (1939)
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981)
A harvest is made honorable when it sustains the giver as well as the taker.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 194
- Nature