Good Evil Quotes

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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

By doing good we become good.

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

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

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?