The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produ….
We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstract….
The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good..
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear,….
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the go….
Obstacles become monsters in your head; evil horrible creatures. Obstacles are sometimes good things. Sometimes they just ARE - not characterized as ….
The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You can't see them, bu….
That there are evil people destroying America and it's a conspiracy and time is running out and we should do something about it - that's what million….
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against hims….
Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind..
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome..
Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so..
It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance...no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just life, that's all..
Certainly, it includes that. I want the story to be interpreted in as many ways as possible, and of course, the bad blood aspect of it included. For ….
The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesse….
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the other side,….
To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble d….
It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil..
That evil can never be great which is the last..
War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface..
Rock 'n' roll started to make so much money and generated so much income for the record companies that suddenly it was no longer evil..