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Every disordered mind is its own punishment.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
Bad men are full of repentance.
Aristotle384–322 BC
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1910)
- Good & Evil
Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.
Bill Maherborn 1956
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
Duty is what one expects from others.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 1
Toleration is the best religion.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to his niece, Harriet Washington (30 October 1791)
It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert Hoover1874–1964
- Government
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658