T. S. Eliot Quotes

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.

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

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

There are no perfect politicians - just as there are no perfect pastors or voters. We are all sinners in need of a Savior.

She has given me a way out.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

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

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!

What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

The good is the beautiful.

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

It is impossible to design a constitution that is so perfect that no one has to be good.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.