Pastoral Resources

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

I think that episode in the third season was great. I'm really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he's a rock star.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

Evil changes everybody!