Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.

Whether or not one has won the Nobel Prize, each of us living in contact with our fellowmen feels a joint responsibility for all forms of suffering, both physical and moral.

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

Today, not a numerous, but an active part of the German people are beginning to realize, not that they have been led astray, not that bad times await them, not that the war may end in defeat, but that what is happening is sin and that they are personally responsible for each terrible deed that has been committed - naturally, not in the earthly sense, but as Christians.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

No sin, especially no great sin, is just a harm done to the individual who commits it. I believe myself that the future of the human race is bound up with that idea. The soul that is conscious of a grievous sin is conscious of a great harm done to the community - to someone else. That common hurt should now be forgiven.

Morality is like a field of flowers beneath which the corpses are piled in a thousand layers. It is an evolved mechanism whereby the human organism proceeds through life sustained on every side by bonds of mutual interest.

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

A scapegoat remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.

It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.

Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

Someone will have to pay for the innocent blood that they shed every day.

Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did to each other every day? They just carried on life and pretended like the evil didn't exist, as long as it was happening out of their direct view.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

There are no innocent bystanders.

Perhaps this is the only real evil left.

No matter what I do, I'm hurting someone." - Katniss Everdeen

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.