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It is very dangerous to ignore the suffering of any sentient being.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935Interview in Worlds in Harmony: Dialogues on Compassionate Action, Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1992, pp. 20-21.
- Animals
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Arguments in the Case of the Communist Labor Party (1920), p. 52
- Good & Evil
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941River out of Eden (1995), pp. 131–132
- Good & Evil
- Science
Yes, I am my brother’s keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality, but by the higher duty I owe to myself.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Issue (1908)
- Responsibility
‘Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.
Daniel Defoe1660–1731A System of Magick (1726).
- Good & Evil
The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.
Daniel Defoe1660–1731The Character of the Late Dr. Samuel Annesley, by Way of Elegy (1697)
- Good & Evil
- Life & Death
All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
Daniel Defoe1660–1731Robinson Crusoe (1719), Chapter IVIn context
- Good & Evil
There is evil! It’s actual, like cement.
Philip K. Dick1928–1982The Man in the High Castle (1962)
- Good & Evil
All evil in the world is the result of an imbalance between the people who benefit from shenanigans and the people who get screwed by shenanigans.
Cory Doctorowborn 1971Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts (2014), p. 317
- Good & Evil
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering, Chapter VIIn context
- Religion
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book III: The Sensualists, Chapter IIIIn context
- Beauty
- Good & Evil
People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that’s a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book V: Pro and Contra, Chapter IVIn context
- Animals
- Good & Evil
I think if the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book V: Pro and Contra, Chapter IVIn context
- God
- Good & Evil
Compassion is the chief law of human existence.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Idiot (1869), Part II, Chapter VIn context
I find characters with a little evil in them much more interesting to play than the good guy. I’d rather play Doc Holliday than Wyatt Earp.
Kirk Douglas1916–2020Interview by Ron Miller (1984)
- Acting
- Good & Evil