good & evil

good/evil

January 1, 1950

This I Believe

For as long as I can remember, I have sought answers to questions that puzzled me: the question as to what is right and wrong; what is mine and what is thine; what is good and what is bad. I...
January 1, 1950

This I Believe

I believe that every man has within himself an urge and a capacity for good. I believe that each, in his own way, strives to satisfy that urge and to establish his place in human society. I believe that complete...
January 1, 1950

This I Believe

I believe many more people want to do right than do wrong. They are misty on what constitutes doing right, but generally they and I believe that truth, beauty, justice, and love are to be preferred to falsehood, ugliness, injustice,...
January 1, 1950

This I Believe

I was brought up in a strictly religious household. Before I was 18, I was hard at work trying to make my fortune in a business which I’d started in London. Its affairs took me to most of the large...
January 1, 1950

Toward a Far, Far Better World

Many years ago, one of my friends and I purchased 40 acres of land not far from Wilmington, North Carolina, with the intention of starting a small chicken farm. In need of a house, we employed an old colored man...