Peace Pilgrim Quotes

Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good.

Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

I think most people know inherently that good wins.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

Your majesty ... give the assassins money and send them away somewhere to America, and write a manifesto starting with the words: 'but I say to you, love your enemies,'....from these words, like a flood, goodness and love would pour forth over Russia.

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

Of course I am not evil.

Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.

Evil has always been here since the world began. Good is what is difficult. It is a work of every day.

I believe there's a place for goodness and love in everything I do.

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

Only those live who do good.