“Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness”

“Ladies and gentlemen: War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

“To attempt to hold fast an instant id doubtful.
To bind an emotion is unthinkable.
To petrify love is impossible.
It is beautiful to be transitory.
How lovely it is not to have to live forever.
Luckily there is nothing good and nothing evil.”

Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) Swiss painter and sculptor

“You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.”

Michael Ende book The Neverending Story

“It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“I've always maintained that the only things to uphold are the good, the true and the beautiful. We have to reject what's ugly.”

Imelda Marcos (1929) Former First Lady of the Philippines

“If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

“Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.”

P. C. Cast book Hunted

“What good is modesty? — It makes us seem more beautiful when we are beautiful, and less ugly when we are ugly.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist