George Saunders Quotes

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

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

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

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

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

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Bad company corrupts good character.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

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

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Personally, I prefer the dark side.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.