Good-and-evil Quotes

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good to evil seems evil a

Good to evil seems evil

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

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

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

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...

...we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the filth and ...

All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs...

To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meanin...

Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no mo...

You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively ...

Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men liv...

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 ...