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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.