The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.
Terry PratchettMy larger point is that since each of us struggles daily with good and bad impulses, we might want to restructure our social institutions in order to make it a little easier to be good.
Richard D. KahlenbergTags: justice good right structural-bias systematic-inequalities
It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.
Nina LaCourTags: inspirational love music power-of-music hurt good
Men who give up the common goal of all things that exist, thereby cease to exist themselves. Some may perhaps think it strange that we say that wicked men, who form the majority of men, do not exist; but that is how it is. I am not trying to deny the wickedness of the wicked; what I do deny is that their existence is absolute and complete existence. Just as you might call a corpse a dead man, but couldn't simply call it a man, so I would agree that the wicked are wicked, but could not agree that they have unqualified existence.
BoethiusEverything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.
Banana YoshimotoEvil forges a tornado.
But goodness battles in a straight line.
Tags: evil good good-and-evil ascension
Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful
Stephen KingTags: life good useful commendable
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.
Jonathan Safran FoerRich and famous and doing good," mused Schlichtmann. "Rich isn't so difficult. Famous isn't so difficult. Rich and famous together aren't so difficult. Rich, famous, and doing good--now, that's very difficult.
Jonathan HarrOdd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have kept my faith in the power of civilization to bring men back from the brink. And yet one women writes a letter, and my whole world falls to pieces.
You see, she is an ordinary woman. A good one, even. That's the point ... Nothing [a recognizably bad person does] can surprise or shock me, or worry me. But she denounced Julia and sent her to her death because she resented her, and because Julia is a Jew.
I thought in this simple contrast between the civilized and the barbaric, but I was wrong. It is the civilized who are the truly barbaric, and the [Nazi] Germans are merely the supreme expression of it.
Tags: wwii evil war civilization good resentment jews nazis barbarism ordinariness pettiness denunciation
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