John Henry Newman Quotes

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.

Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly place because everything that corrects the tendency of this unspeakable little creature, man, to feel over-important and over-pleased with himself would disappear. He's bad enough now, but he would be absolutely intolerable if he never suffered.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

What happens if your choice is misguided, You must try to correct it But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t? Then you must find a way to live with it.

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

The truth will come out in the end.

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out of it.

The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.

Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.