Best can-do & evil Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . .”

Knows World Evil Can Do Knowing Terror Limitation Fatigue Superficiality

Book:Uncommon Sense

Source: Uncommon Sense

“Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.”

Should Trying Children Art Evil Sports Can Do Tools Mathematics Competition Twins Copying

Author:Tony Buzan

“The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.”

Mean Faces Evil Can Do Laughing Worst Laugh At Yourself

Author:Ayn Rand

“Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.”

Trying Together Evil Grows Can Do Growing Up Bounds Good And Evil Equilibrium Tilt

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Nothing can do men of good will more harm than apparent compromises with parties that subscribe to antimoral and antidemocratic and anti-God forces. We must have the courage to detach our support from men who are doing evil. We must bear them no hatred, but we must break with them.”

Men Wisdom Evil Politics Force Can Do Party Break Support Economy Bears Hatred Harm Compromise Liberalism Good Will Anti God

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.”

Men Seems Evil Individual Can Do Amount Moderates Mischief Exertion Best Of Me

Book:The works of Washington Irving

Source: The works of Washington Irving

“The only good thing we can do, the only goodness we can be sure of, is our own goodness as individuals and the good that we can individually do. As groups we often do evil that good may come and very often the good does not come and all that is left is the evil we have pointlessly done.”

May Doe Done Evil Individual Left Can Do Groups Goodness Good Things Individuality

Author:Marghanita Laski

“If the cross shows me that I am far worse than I had ever imagined, it also shows me that my evil has been absorbed and forgiven. If the worst thing any human can do is kill God's son, and that can be forgiven, then how can anything else not be forgiven?”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Shows Evil Can Do Worst Son Crosses Show Me Worst Things Forgiven

Book:Hope has its reasons: surprised by faith in a broken world

Source: Hope has its reasons: surprised by faith in a broken world

“It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.”

Men Wells Evil Left Sides Can Do Grace Rebellion Bondage

Author:Martin Luther

“You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.”

Want Political Used Purpose Evil Can Do Decision Powerful Tools Blame Political Decisions

Author:Richard Dawkins

“The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.”

Government Evil Individual Can Do Roles Rights Modern Effects Safety Independence Secure Protest Excess Declaration Declaration Of Independence Modern Society Necessary Evil Role Of Government

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching resistance against every outward evil - by the silent preaching of your own contrary life. But if the only good you can do him is by talking at him, or about him - nay, even to him, if it be in a self-satisfied, super-virtuous style - such as I earnestly hope the present writer is not doing - you had much better leave him alone.”

Ifs Wells Mean Self Evil Can Do Talking Moral Kindness Style Silent Contrary Satisfied Resistance Virtuous Preaching Neighbour Doing You

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.”

Care Evil Can Do Picks Imaginary Catastrophe Choose Wisely He Doesn't Care

Author:Sam Harris

“When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”

Men Needs Years Made Running Evil Can Do Thousand Creatures Devil Machines Thousand Years Elbows

Book:Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

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