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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel1928–2016Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo (10 December 1986)
- Good & Evil
- Justice
Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives.
Cicero107–43 BCThe First Oration Against Catiline (63 BC)
- Politics
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Wisdom
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Wisdom
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Virtue
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Good & Evil
- Religion
We’ve come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed.
George W. Bushborn 1946The Axis of Evil (2002)
- Good & Evil
I urge you to beware the temptation of pride⁠—the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004The Evil Empire (1983)
- Good & Evil
- War & Peace
Let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the Earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004The Evil Empire (1983)
- Good & Evil
- Government
The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)
- Life & Death
“Every thing’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IXIn context
Do not as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst like a puff’d and reckless libertine
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by OpheliaIn context
- Advice
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene V, spoken by HamletIn context
- Good & Evil
- Truth & Lies
“I am afraid,” replied Elinor, “that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Sense and Sensibility (1811), Chapter XIIIIn context
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume II, Chapter VIn context