Hannah Arendt Quotes

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

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

He kills people. Now I'm no expert, but doesn't that make you a bad person?" Jamie glared at Nick. "You've killed a lot more people than he has. What does that make you?" "Not a person," Nick murmured, not sounding particularly interested. "Surely you remember.

To do wrong is the greatest of evils.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

A lot of evil has been perpetrated in the name of confronting evil.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.

I don't know how to play evil.

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

I killed one man to save 100,000.