Good And Evil Quotes
Martin Luther King Jr.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
2264 Joyce Carol Oates
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.
2095 Don DeLillo
That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.
2202 Anne Ursu
She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like witches who lured people into the woods. In a weird way, the world seemed to make more sense that way.
1140 Jim Butcher
You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
2958 J.K. Rowling
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
3869 E.A. Bucchianeri
The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...
3084 E.A. Bucchianeri
... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.
1065 Nenia Campbell
Sometimes evil didn't need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was.
2335 E.A. Bucchianeri
If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.
1546 Gautama Buddha
He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
1047 Richelle E. Goodrich
There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.
4192 Stephen R. Lawhead
To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.
4987 Neil Gaiman
There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.
1086 E.A. Bucchianeri
Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the
world. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.
1973 Stephen King
All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.
4527 Moderata Fonte
[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.
4172 Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is the only thing that can touch our soul and change our heart.
2090 Carl Sagan
Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science.
1872 Vishwas Chavan
Truth always prevails. Both divine and devil are two sides of the same coin. Rather, devil is in the divine and divine is in the devil. It is for us to make a conscious choice, whether we want to be devil or divine. Let us choose good over evil.
4538 James Thurber
I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life."
"The firefly's ?" said the minstrel.
"The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.
4481 H.M. Ward
Light and dark ain't supposed to mix. They're like broccoli and chocolate - just nasty when you put them together - but that appears to be what's happening with you
2805 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.
2261 Terry Pratchett
I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
2293 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts.
2373 Leo Tolstoy
You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.
1251 Lailah Gifty Akita
May our lives and gentle spirit be evident to all that we are members of God's family.
4689 C.S. Lewis
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
2798 Sara Zaske
Nature is not kind; it is not good. Do you really think nature cares about any individual living thing?
3221 Heraclitus
The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.
4150 Lailah Gifty Akita
It is sad but so many tragedies can be avoided, if we extend a little bit of love to one another.
1566 Jubin Jomon
Fundamental rule in your life, is to know what your deserve in life and getting what you deserve. That's winning always.
1410 Kurt Vonnegut
Painters-and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!
1144 George Bernard Shaw
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
1133 Kohta Hirano
Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.
2366 H. Rider Haggard
We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.
2046 Ashley Montagu
The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.
3426 E.A. Bucchianeri
It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.
3582 A.H. Amin
Good and evil has no passport; it speaks in different tongues, wears many skins, and exists everywhere, even in the same person
3728 Jeff Cooper
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.
4393 Suzy Kassem
Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.
3227 Stephen Chbosky
So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try and feel okay about them.
1807 Michael Bassey Johnson
Do something: be it good or evil, if they ask why you did it, tell them you're different.
1957 Eliezer Yudkowsky
Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.
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