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 to them unwillingly.
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PROTAGORAS Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.
PHILIP ZIMBARDO To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is pa...
PLUTARCH Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.
ANNE BISHOP Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
THE BELZER RABBI Is there any other way than this to describe treachery and disgrace? May evil befall them, for evil ...
SADDAM HUSSEIN We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But ...
ALISON CROGGON The worst evil is that most subtle evil. It is the evil that is merely 'base' which is more evil tha...
CRISS JAMI Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
ROBERT DALE OWEN Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and...
ROBERT GROSSETESTE Evil only abound to them that perpetrate the same, but they that are enshrined with the potency to c...
MARCO OSCAR OZ We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, b...
CESARE PAVESE I don't it really as a class system. I see it as those who are willing to do something that they wou...
TWILA BRASE Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison
BUDDHA Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
SHALOM ROKEACH Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
SHALOM ROKEACH No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th...
STEVEN WEINBERG Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Sin...
MOHAMED ELBARADEI 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 That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer...
A.S. BYATT 269.—No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
HOMER I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most o...
MAX VON SYDOW He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner...
HESIOD If you think of evil things, you are likely to do evil things and that will never pay you a pesewa. ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good peopl...
STEVEN WEINBERG I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel us...
C.S. LEWIS No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.
A GENTLEMEN All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.
LEOPOLDO LOPEZ It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil.
TOBA BETA I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for go...
WILLIAM GIBSON It's no good to give money to anybody
who thinks money as the root of all evil.
TOBA BETA 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 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 Republican candidates who appeal to prejudice and are recently calling some parts of America the “...
KRISTAN PETERS-HAMLIN And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we...
PHILIP PULLMAN Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of...
HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ The main goal is to respond willingly and reliably to verbal commands. And on top of that, they shou...
SHELLY FERGER He who doesn’t believe that God can do everything believes in a god who can do something! He who k...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH 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 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 If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN And that the hearts of those who do not believe in the hereafter may incline to it and that they may...
QURAN They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their a...
CRISS JAMI Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, env...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: env...
BUDDHA I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly...
QUENTIN BRYCE I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
HULK HOGAN Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and ...
STEVEN WEINBERG 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 If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary on...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary onl...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ...
RONALD REAGAN Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and...
NORA ROBERTS Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
BIBLE Mugabe has built his power base on the politics of patronage ... and all those things are part of th...
ELDRED MASUNUNGURE They do their evil deeds, and pretend otherwise; but in the Court of the Lord, they shall be bound a...
ATHARVA VEDA Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggl...
KAREN MARIE MONING 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 I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
AESCHYLUS According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
BODHIDHARMA It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.
FRANKLIN GRAHAM The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not,or, being willing to do so, cannot;or...
EPICURUS Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not s...
FREDERICK FARRAR Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consc...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Keeping away from all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind f...
BUDDHA It is a profound political reality that Christ now occupies the supreme seat of cosmic authority. Th...
R.C. SPROUL Success is a prize given to those who try and fail willingly.
JEFFREY BRYANT The evil that men do leads after them, but the evil that women do surprises the devil himself.
THE INSPIRATIONIST It is our obligation to free them from the clutches of evil, evil that has no boundaries,
GIDEON EZRA What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation domi...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO Stay away from evil deeds and indulge in virtuous ones, surrender totally to the will of God. A man,...
ATHARVA VEDA When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is n...
MAX LERNER 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 Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,
Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to...
DAVE EGGERS Love, affection, even attention are not things that need pursuit. If they are not given freely, open...
CHARLES F. GLASSMAN The difference between stupid and intelligent people -- and this is true whether or not they are wel...
NEAL STEPHENSON When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbag...
NICK JOAQUíN A man who believes that all things are possible, approaches the unconventional with an open mind and...
BRENDEN J. WILLIAMS Men willingly believe what they wish.
JULIUS CAESAR Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will ris...
DR. SEUSS One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-mean...
PAMELA MEYER I truly enjoy no more of the world's good things than what I willingly distribute to the needy
SENECA 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