Good And Evil Quotes

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.

The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.

I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

I have learned a lot about good and evil - they are not always what they appear to be.

Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.

In the forest of primeval A school for Good and Evil Twin towers like two heads One for the pure And one for the wicked Try to escape you'll always fail, The only way out is Through a fairytale.

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.