Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry about it. He was unconcerned, in other words, with what modern thinkers call 'the problem of dirty hands.'

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue ... Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker

For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners.

the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though along; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself -- theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?