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There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. — Robert E.Lee

Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moran or a lout, howeverm doesn't stop to think or reason. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world. — Abba Eban

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. — Thomas Carlyle

I got a story, ain't no moral, I let the bad guy win every now and then. — Billy Preston

I soon learned to separate theological from moral prejudices, and I gave up looking for a supernatural origin of evil. A — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing," he added, "quite like the moral absolutism of the young. It's easy, as a child, to believe in good and evil, in light and dark. — Cassandra Clare

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user. — Dave Ramsey

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin. — Henry Ward Beecher

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. — Ayn Rand

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good. — John Bradshaw

When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror. — Peter Boghossian

Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil. — Ella Leya

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework. — Ravi Zacharias

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities. — Reinhard Bendix

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death. — Michel Houellebecq

The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself. — Ravi Zacharias

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral. — Mahatma Gandhi

I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in the world?' — Richard Dawkins

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people. — Antonia Fraser

I am a firm believer that there is rarely a straight line between good and evil. — Nicholas Denmon

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils. — Nathanael Emmons

Without man there would be no evil. But there was also no good, nothing moral built over the world of fact. Humans were responsible for it all. — Karl Marlantes

Human evil is a collapse of the moral faculty, but not an operating pursuing of the wrong. — Arvin Adriyan

By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse. — Thomas Chalmers

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. — Anthony Burgess

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery. — James Madison

For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household. — Julia McNair Wright

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive. — Lee Strobel

Evil is a moral judgment, — Rob Blackwell

It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill! — Mother Teresa

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. — Joseph De Maistre

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible. — Thomas Paine

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. — Abraham Lincoln

What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it? — Aaron B. Powell

It is a rule of life that we eventually become victims of the evil we do to others. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The fact that we can never have complete, perfect knowledge does not absolve us of the moral duty to judge and to take a stand against evil. — Ken Liu

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods — Irving Kristol

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil. — Samuel Johnson

If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you? — K.L. Toth

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero. — Ayn Rand

Noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it. — Niels Arden Oplev

Evil had its own logic and it was not something he, given his own moral code, would ever understand. And humans think we are monsters. — Sylvain Reynard

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence. — Ayn Rand

One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can. — William Wordsworth

Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know it in your conscience. — Gregory Maguire

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

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist. — Julian Jaynes

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil ... — Abraham Lincoln

How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself? — Ted Dekker

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass ... to stand up against such social evils — Kailash Satyarthi

This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy. — Saki

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. — William Penn

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Moral evil is its own curse. — Thomas Chalmers

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to
moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written
in it? — Richard Dawkins