For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.