“If people are capable of committing evil deeds, then the people occupying the offices of government will be cut from the same cloth. They are evildoers, too. There is not a single shred of evidence that they will be otherwise.”

Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume II, (1999), p. 487

2010s, 2014 FIFA World Cup, Brazil v. Germany (2014)
Context: We're ten minutes into the game, nearly eleventh minute. There's lots of space already on the field. Brazil have to come a little bit tighter, Ian. They can't be so expansive, from back to front. Otherwise? The Germans will cut them to shreds.

1930s, Address at Madison Square Garden (1936)

Will and Mary in Ch. 33 : Marzipan
His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000)
Context: "When you stopped believing in God, did you stop believing in good and evil?"
"No. But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels."

Political Register, XLVI, pp. 513-514 (31 May 1823).

I.85
Source: Human, All Too Human (1878)

And further, one should think: "This leads to happiness in this world and the next."
Edicts of Ashoka (c. 257 BC)

in an interview on ABC
1965