Good-and-evil Quotes

He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death wit...

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a...

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a...

He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really ...

So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do a...

At the same time there was the good of the poor and the good of the rich. And the good of the whites...

Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, i...

In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosio...

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, ...

The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?

Active evil is better than passive good

Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, ...

And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender a...

When he passed me in the restaurant," he said at last, "I had a curious impression. It was as though...

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.

I was profoundly impressed by my contact with these places which are and have always been, the wells...

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it

It may not be nice to be good, 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I ...

An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the Stat...

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law.

You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you i...

The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

Of course it was horrible,' smiled Dr. Branom. 'Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you'r...

The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cu...

Our subject is, you see, impelled towards the good by, paradoxically, being impelled towards evil. T...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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