Evil - Quotes
Everythings a choice. Nobody`s born good. Nobody`s born evil. It`s always a choice.
The best gifts of all find the fewest admirers, and that most men mistake the bad for the good, - a daily evil that nothing can prevent, like a plague which no remedy can cure. There is but one thing to be done, though how difficult! - the foolish must become wise, - and that they can never be. The value of life they never know; they see with the outer eye but never with the mind, and praise the trivial because the good is strange to them.
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
Science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.
There is only one good, that is, knowledge, and only one evil, that is, ignorance.
People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
It doesn`t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.