664 Quotes About Good-and-evil

Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself.

It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile?

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.

You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good.

An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the State, very severely hit by you brutal hooligans, not hit back also? But the new view is to say no. The new view is that we turn the bad into the good. All of which seems to me grossly unjust.

The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

The problem in todays world is that people lack trust in goodness.

The boundary between good and evil are clearer for more common folks but gets blurred more and more as people get more power over their fellows.

So a good man can be a bad Christian?""I suppose so.""Then a bad man," I said, "can be a good Christian?