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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allenborn 1935
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allenborn 1935
Terrorism undermines morality. Then, too, it undermines reason.
Martin Amis1949–2023“The Palace of the End” (2003)
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
Martin Amis1949–2023Novelists in Interview (1985) edited by John Haffenden
- Writing
No evil can be excused because it is done with a good intention.
Thomas Aquinas1225–1274On the Ten Commandments (c. 1273), Art. 1
- Good & Evil
The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
Hannah Arendt1906–1975The Life of the Mind (1978), “Thinking”
- Good & Evil
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.
Hannah Arendt1906–1975Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), Epilogue
- Good & Evil
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
Aristotle384–322 BC
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle384–322 BCNichomachean Ethics (ca. 325 BC) Book II.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle384–322 BC
- Fear
- Good & Evil
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle384–322 BC
Bad men are full of repentance.
Aristotle384–322 BC
If a man knows what it is right to do, he does not require a formal reason. And a person that has been thus trained, either possesses these first principles already, or can easily acquire them.
Aristotle384–322 BCThe Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I) (Bk I, Ch II)
A lot of people facing fascism didn’t become fascists. I don’t happen to believe that we are all monsters.
Margaret Atwoodborn 1939The Progressive interview (2010)
- Good & Evil
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”
- Good & Evil