Good and Evil

 

Illustration: The Good and Evil Angels, William Blake.

“It’s hard to convince people that you’re killing them for their own good.” - Molly Ivins

 "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