Abu Bakr Quotes

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

I've never met anyone who is seriously bad.

I like evil people.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

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

Shun all vice, especially card playing.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

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.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

No one may do evil that good may come.

[Utah is] A place not desired by the wicked.

Shall piety be a license to immoral deeds, and shall religion be regarded as affording the occasion for all riotous extravagance?

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

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

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

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

I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.