Pastoral Resources

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

I do like to explore evil characters in my books.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.