Kenneth Scott Latourette Quotes

The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be either good or evil.

There is no rational creature which is not capable both of good and evil

The more...we consider man to be free, the less we can say, that he can neglect to use reason, or choose evil in preference to good

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

I believe there's things all around us that make you do good things and some that make you do bad things.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.