But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced….

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Becaus….

Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness….

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil..

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time….

When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of you….

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature..

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be..

Good and evil both increase at compound interest..

I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may….

A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote fo….

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems..

As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as rare as we would like ….

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about wh….

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil….

The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody,….

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy….

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any..

Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin..

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form..

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves..