Illustration: The Good and Evil Angels, William Blake.
"Even if the rats are jumping from a sinking ship, they are still
rats." - Ilene Schneider
"I can really sell integrity." - Adam Stempel
"You hear about someone who does bad things and it turns out they had a bad childhood. So what?" - David Gerrold
"If not us, who? If not together, how?" -
Suzanne Palmer
"People
say that in the past racism was acceptable. It never was. It was just
acceptable to some White people." - Catriona McPherson
"All his life he thought scruples were the little
dangly bits at the back of the throat. And they were removed when he was
six." - Marilyn Todd
"Nobody cries like a bully." - Neil Steinberg.
"What doesn't kill you makes you tired and resentful." - Flip Breskin
"Forgetting is what nationalists do." -Neil Steinberg
“Just because you sold your soul
doesn’t mean that you drove a hard bargain”—Timothy Snyder."We’re never at the end of the fight for justice, we’re always,
over and over, just entering the arena." -Elizabeth Nelson
"The way you do anything is the way you do everything." -Bob Iger
“There’s no sport in hunting an animal that has already shot
itself in the foot.- Monica Hesse
"For the world to function smoothly, everyone needs to act a lot better than I do." - Stephen Pastis
"Luckily for you, we all have exactly six active slots available in our
brains for grudges…and your egregious replacement just logged in." - Will Ludwigsen
"Ineptness is a kind of conspiracy." -Nora Ephron
"Savage is a convertible term." -Peter Oliver
“I’ve never seen hatred like this. To me, they’re not even people." - Eric Trump
"The worst thing the enemy can do is make us more like them." -George F. Kennan
"The ethics of an imitative orangutan cannot be an issue for serious debate." -J.K. Van Dover
"I would never cheat anyone unless it was absolutely convenient." - Doc Dixon
"That's the thing about unkindness—it's impatient, it wants to leap, it feeds on itself, and encourages others to join in without really thinking either." -Neil Steinberg
"They don't make thuggish apparatchiks like they used to." - Charles P. Pierce
"Doing the right thing because people are watching you isn't the best reason, but it will do." - Neil Steinberg
"I am always true to my word, which happens to be 'dishonest.'" - Lorrie B. Potters
"The lesser of two evils is better than the worse of two evils." - Darrin Bell
"When you're a nail, everything looks like a hammer." - Shelley Posen
“We always rise heroically to the challenges we never face, in our own minds.” – Neil Steinberg
"The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience." -Harper Lee
"Even evil magicians get up in the night and look for cookies, sometimes." - Mercedes Lackey
"Children are driven by a sense of injustice." -Neil Gaiman
"A buried conscience is the worst ghost of all." - Janice Law (slightly edited)
"Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” -Maya Angelou
“It's paramount to blame those responsible for any faults I may possess." - David Dean
"You cannot wake a person who pretends to be sleeping.” - Navaho proverb
“Murder is easy. Comedy is hard.” - Scott Simon
“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.” ~ Maya Angelou
“Homophobia is misogyny's little brother" - Dan Savage
“Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.” –Ann Coulter
"Power corrupts but lack of power corrupts absolutely." —Orson Welles
“If you aren’t part of the solution, you’re part of the scheme.” - Tony Bird
“He respected her principles and loved the way she could bypass them.” - Roddy Doyle
“I must confess a weakness for the villain, but my hopes are never realized.” – Walter B. Gibson, creator of the shadow.
“Into each life some jerk must fall.” -Doc Finch
“The spanker may forget but never the spankee.” - F.D.R. Ferguson
"There is no emissary for an evil deed." -David Twersky
"Every sinner has a future...Every saint has a past." -Kinky Friedman
"There's too many strong to do nothing wrong and not enough strong to do right." -Dave Gordon
"To our friends, the good guys. And to our enemies, the bad guys. And to the hope that someday we'll be able to tell which are which." -Keith Laumer (slightly edited)
"If the bad guys don't get you, baby, then the good guys will." -Buffe Saint-Marie