Good And Evil Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

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

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

What's devil to some is good to some others.

God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.

Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.

Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic.

Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

Power is not happiness.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

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

Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

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

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

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

We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.

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

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

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

Deep inside, the majority of people had the sneaking suspicion that evil was more powerful than good and could be counteracted only by more evil.

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.

Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.