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What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.