Pastoral Resources

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.