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Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking int...

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The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first...

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I believe in (the American) people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic t...

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Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

So a good man can be a bad Christian?""I suppose so.""Then a bad man," I said, "can be a good Christ...

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When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know i...

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If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know i...

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If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know i...

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If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know i...

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If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know i...

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When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know i...

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If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know i...

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If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know i...

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Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

On the one hand, if God is wiser than we His judgement must differ from ours on many things, and not...

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C. S. LewisThe Problem of Pain

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no tu...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires...

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Sully disapproved of destruction for destruction's sake, which seemed ever more popular in the moder...

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That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

Well -- think about this. What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, make no difference to G...

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But while I have never considered myself a very good person, neither can I bring myself to believe t...

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Donna TarttThe Secret History

To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind t...

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Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkn...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I cou...

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He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opp...

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It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything doe...

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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there ar...

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Armageddon,' Sandy said. 'The final battle. The ultimate confrontation between good and evil. That's...

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We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we ea...

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Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his s...

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As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does n...

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The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand G...

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Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after ...

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Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism ...

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Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

[But] I fear that in the individual lives of all but a few, the balance is in debit - we do so littl...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! For he is very wise, and weighs a...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Photo Guide

It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange...How shall ...

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I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had...

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The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by...

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People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the h...

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You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

I like the word ‘evil’. Scramble it a little and you will get ‘vile’ and ‘live’. ‘Good’, on the othe...

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There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good...

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There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good...

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I have one head that wants to be good,And one that wants to be bad.And always, as soon as I get up,O...

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I used to think this was all about good and evil,” said Rickett, “but it’s not.”“No?”“There’s a kind...

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No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...

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Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.

No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...

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Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer...

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Some people would say- you're only a drop, your word-breaking is only a drop, it wouldn't matter. Bu...

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A dragon is a confusion at the heart of things, a law unto himself. He embraces good, evil, and indi...

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Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those momen...

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John IrvingThe Cider House Rules

Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their ava...

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The image that comes to mind is a boxing ring. There are times when...you just want that bell to rin...

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

I had no idea you were capable of such a diabolical plan, Human, my friend, just human, the devil do...

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And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequ...

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Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to i...

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You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by...

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What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing...

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There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. I...

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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...

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And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and kno...

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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why...

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You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: ...

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I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobo...

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There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradis...

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There was the kind of silence there might have been on the day before Creation. Adam stood smiling a...

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Neil GaimanGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

The little mutton-chopped man interrupted them to point out that in his opinion good was not the avo...

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Neil GaimanTrigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will l...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

Right and wrong stood for him as immutable as the two poles. He had never wandered in that twilight ...

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P. D. JamesA Mind to Murder

That's who I am, a man who has been both good and evil throughout his life. pg 14

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Paulo CoelhoThe Devil and Miss Prym

You're not trying to find the answer to a question, you're simply trying to confirm something you de...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Devil and Miss Prym

...she was betting on the fact that people were basically good, despite all the Evil in the world.

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Paulo CoelhoThe Devil and Miss Prym

I lost the most precious thing a man can have: my faith in my fellow man. I laughed and I wept at Go...

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Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they dis...

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A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had be...

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We've heard them all talk about Dust, and they're so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed th...

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Evil people relate more to the black pole. It's - this is not exact, of course, as the science of ma...

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All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows fro...

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Since man always remains free and since his freedom is always fragile, the kingdom of good will neve...

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Good to evil seems evil

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on betwe...

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There was something strange in my sensations, indescribably new and incredibly sweet. I knew myself,...

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And wehav...

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Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.

When the prophet, a complacent fat man,Arrived at the mountain-topHe cried: "Woe to my knowledge!I i...

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Stephen CraneComplete Poems of Stephen Crane