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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
The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato429–349 BCAttributed to Plato on the letterhead of the Constitution Party. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations compiled by The Library of Congress. Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications, 2010.
- Good & Evil
- Politics
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson1941–2026
- Justice
- Life & Death
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), p. 87In context
- Good & Evil
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770), Volume i, p. 526
- Good & Evil
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Often credited to Edmund Burke
It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
Anne Frank1929–1945The Diary of a Young Girl (1942—1944), 15 July 1944
- Good & Evil
It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen Kingborn 1947
- Good & Evil
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists, p. 239 Good Intentions
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.
Albert Camus1913–1960The Fall (1956)
I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968
War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
- Good & Evil
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other ‘sins’ are invented nonsense.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Time Enough for Love (1973).