No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.
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ROBERT GROSSETESTE We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, b...
CESARE PAVESE Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
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TWILA BRASE Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
ROBERT DALE OWEN With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th...
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good peopl...
STEVEN WEINBERG The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness o...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of...
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MOHAMED ELBARADEI Evil only abound to them that perpetrate the same, but they that are enshrined with the potency to c...
MARCO OSCAR OZ I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel us...
C.S. LEWIS The evil that men do leads after them, but the evil that women do surprises the devil himself.
THE INSPIRATIONIST That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer...
A.S. BYATT I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly...
QUENTIN BRYCE No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Boys do not fully know what is good and what is evil; they do wrong things at first almost innocentl...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of eve...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS... They do their evil deeds, and pretend otherwise; but in the Court of the Lord, they shall be bound a...
ATHARVA VEDA 269.—No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do busine...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most o...
MAX VON SYDOW And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we...
PHILIP PULLMAN No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.
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DEYTH BANGER Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
BIBLE What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation domi...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
AESCHYLUS I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for go...
WILLIAM GIBSON A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it
WILLIAM PENN A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner...
HESIOD And that the hearts of those who do not believe in the hereafter may incline to it and that they may...
QURAN When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbag...
NICK JOAQUíN There's a difference between people who do hurtful things because they're evil and people who do bad...
BREE DESPAIN So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are...
T.S. ELIOT Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and ...
STEVEN WEINBERG He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he
lacks opportunity.
FRANCIS QUARLES I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them fo...
WILLIAM GIBSON When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is n...
MAX LERNER If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
PETER O'TOOLE There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, o...
ANNE BRADSTREET It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil.
TOBA BETA Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggl...
KAREN MARIE MONING No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they'r...
CARICE VAN HOUTEN It is a profound political reality that Christ now occupies the supreme seat of cosmic authority. Th...
R.C. SPROUL Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT There's no race. The base voters are the only ones that are going to turn out, and he's got them all...
ERIC THODE I can help the guys be better outfielders, and I can help them be better base runners and base steal...
BILLY HATCHER It's no good to give money to anybody
who thinks money as the root of all evil.
TOBA BETA The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not,or, being willing to do so, cannot;or...
EPICURUS Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do not be disturbed or angered at another's sin or evil, rather, spiritually help the one who has si...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI (EARLIER RULE 5) Republican candidates who appeal to prejudice and are recently calling some parts of America the “...
KRISTAN PETERS-HAMLIN You do evil to the man and to God through your miracle prayers all the time.
SUNDAY ADELAJA I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
HULK HOGAN The main goal is to respond willingly and reliably to verbal commands. And on top of that, they shou...
SHELLY FERGER Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have contro...
ELLEN G. WHITE What do we base our joy on? Is it on physical things or eternal values.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language.
HERACLITUS There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and...
JOHN STERLING There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and...
JOHN STERLING No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ...
RONALD REAGAN Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway
ISABELLE HOLLAND Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and...
NORA ROBERTS To see evil and do nothing is evil.
JIM GENOVESE There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If ...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to...
DAVE EGGERS Mugabe has built his power base on the politics of patronage ... and all those things are part of th...
ELDRED MASUNUNGURE The most perplexing form of evil, and especially so for all idealists, is that kind of evil which co...
WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their a...
CRISS JAMI Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge i...
VERONICA ROTH There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
BENJAMIN SPOCK There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.
MODERN MATURITY There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age
BENJAMIN SPOCK Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not s...
FREDERICK FARRAR I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem ...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem ...
PHILIP G. ZIMBARDO Man will always do evil and break laws if God’s moral laws are not their foundation
SUNDAY ADELAJA