Barbara Cartland Quotes

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good.

I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.

I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

I've always identified [myself] with the warrior and good over evil, and you don't negotiate for good over evil, if you want peace and love, kill people that deny you that.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.

Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.

A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.