Edward Dahlberg Quotes

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.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think - really, truly think - that they're doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person.

The truth doesn't lie. It's up in your face. It's in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.

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.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

I'm not an evil person. Nobody's really evil.

My success at living a moral life is pretty terrible, but I still aspire to do it! I identify with the Johnny Cash thing that trying to live a good life and be a good person are not necessarily the same thing!

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.