Ward Hunt Quotes

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them are abomination …

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

When you're talking about villainy, then you're automatically circling around to talk about justice.

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

Evil is only good perverted.

I do believe quite strongly in evil.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

I like evil people.

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