Quotes about Good
noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus eloquently affirmed from the cross a higher law. He knew that the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.
— Ayn Rand
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.
— Ayn Rand
When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.
— Ayn Rand
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.
— Ayn Rand
As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.
— Irenaeus of Lyons
The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.
— E Stanley Jones
The opposite of bad is not good. The opposite of bad is love.
— Henry Cloud
I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of God wherewith to overcome all error.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.
— Robert Barron