Top 100 Between Good And Evil Quotes
#1. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.
Howard Thurman
#2. We are all the same instincts
Good and Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more and nothing less.
Paulo Coelho
#3. A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.
Melissa Marr
#4. Sweet Bird of Youth": "The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven't.
Paul Newman
#5. Our hearts are with you and we are ready to provide any assistance at any time ... This is a war between good and evil and between humanity and the bloodthirsty.
Ariel Sharon
#6. 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.
Ayn Rand
#7. I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.
William Styron
#8. There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views.
Peter J. Tomasi
#9. It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
Gerard De Nerval
#10. A country which accepts wars as contests between good and evil is suffering from the delusion that the morality play symbolizes real political conflicts.
Pauline Kael
#11. The line between good and evil does not lie between "us" and "them," between the West and the rest, between Left and Right, between rich and poor. That fateful line runs down the middle of each of us, every human society, every individual.
N. T. Wright
#12. There is a greater war, Uhtred. Not the fight between Saxon and Dane, but between God and the devil, between good and evil! We are part of it!
Bernard Cornwell
#13. There are no boundries between good and evil where love is concerned.
James O'Barr
#14. I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.
Christopher Golden
#15. If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
Dennis Prager
#17. Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil ... Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.
Richard M. Weaver
#18. People are not totally good or bad, black or white - unless we are talking of evil psychos.
We, human beings, are somewhere between angels and demons. That is what makes us, human beings, lovely imperfect.
Cristiane Serruya
#19. Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.
Dennis Prager
#20. People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#21. All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#22. The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects of shaping our personalities and humanity.
Marilyn Manson
#23. The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.
Stephen King
#24. I know," he said quietly. "But I also know there's a thin line between good and evil. There's a gray area, one we all step into.
J.M. Darhower
#25. 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.
Basil Hume
#26. The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us
Pope Francis
#27. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric Hoffer
#28. This is a war between good and evil. And we have made it clear to the world that we will stand strong on the side of good, and we expect other nations to join us. This is not a war between our world and their world. It is a war to save the world.
George W. Bush
#30. All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.
William Friedkin
#31. Without even knowing it ourselves, we were ransomed by the small change in copper that was left from the golden coins our great-grandfathers had expended, at a time when morality was not considered relative and when the distinction between good and evil was very simply perceived by the heart.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#32. And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in between anywhere.
John Steinbeck
#33. And if time is not real, then the gap which seems to be between the world and the eternity, between suffering and blissfulness, between evil and good, is also a deception." "How
Hermann Hesse
#34. Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they're still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#35. When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
Ted Dekker
#36. Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#37. One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, "Make yourself at home."
Vance Havner
#38. The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.
Milan Kundera
#39. What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?
Libba Bray
#40. 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.
Georges Bataille
#42. The discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#43. You mean that between desiring good and desiring evil there is a brief step, because it is always a matter of directing the will. This is true. But the difference lies in the object, and the object is clearly recognizable. God on this side, the Devil on that.
Umberto Eco
#44. Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.
Asghar Farhadi
#45. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.
Jeff Goodell
#46. While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#47. There is a god in every single one of us. And there is evil in every single one of us. The true battle between good and evil is fought within.
Anonymous
#48. With Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred.
Melika Dannese Lux
#49. It is interesting that it is not the getting of any sort of knowledge that God has forbidden, but, specifically, the knowledge of the difference between good and evil-that is, abstract and moral judgments, which, if they reside anywhere, reside in the neocortex.
Carl Sagan
#50. For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.
Aristotle.
#51. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.
It is in the close similarity between good and evil, right and wrong, that the danger lies.
Billy Graham
#52. Wake up ! This ain't war between good and evil anymore.
This is war between good people for their respective survival.
Whoever lose in this war, will be remembered as the evil one.
Toba Beta
#53. People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts - if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.
Julianna Baggott
#54. In order to be good, you must recognize the difference between right and wrong and strive to choose the right. To be truly evil you must do the contrary. Being good or evil is a choice.
Brandon Mull
#55. 'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.
Jesse Plemons
#56. The boundary between good and evil are clearer for more common folks but gets blurred more and more as people get more power over their fellows.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#57. The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.
Jim Butcher
#58. These superhero and mythical stories have, in many cases, replaced Biblical stories as vehicles for communal myths, but they are hardly any better than ancient magical adventures tinged with mythical archetypes and the decidedly unnuanced black-and-white struggle between good and evil.
Gudjon Bergmann
#59. What is there in common between life and chemistry; between good and evil and electrical charges, between a collection of cells and the consciousness of a caress?
Aldous Huxley
#60. We learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that decisions determine destiny.
Thomas S. Monson
#61. The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.
Amish Tripathi
#62. The world should have balance between evil and good, positive and negative. If one is missed there isn't balance.
Deyth Banger
#63. The difference between good and evil men is not found in the acts they are willing to commit - but merely in what name they are willing to commit them in.
Brandon Sanderson
#64. [ ... ] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting.
Charles Williams
#65. The choice between the ethical and the aesthetic is not the choice between good and evil, it is the choice whether or not to choose in terms of good and evil.
Alasdair MacIntyre
#66. I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher
#67. Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.
Christopher Meledandri
#68. Heaven and Hell. White and black. Good and evil. This was a face-off between light and dark, as stark and true as any war since time immemorial. The
Mark Cassell
#69. If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.
Richard Kearney
#70. One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.
John Taylor Gatto
#71. He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son.
Saint Patrick
#72. The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.
Warren Farrell
#73. What is good, and what is evil? Where do you draw the line between the two?" Now Yuriko was getting a little upset. I'm just in fifth grade, you know. They haven't taught us difficult things like that yet. "There
Miyuki Miyabe
#74. Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and what we judge to be evil. And this judgment is the primary thing that keeps us from doing the central thing God created and saved us to do, namely, love like he loves.
Gregory A. Boyd
#75. The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#76. The transgression of Adam and Eve was not in learning the difference between good and evil but in treating the knowledge they received as something that was, literally, internal to them-a food that could be seized, devoured, and controlled by the individual.
Michael Rips
#77. ...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is rather much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between two irreconcilable views of the world.
Daniel Mendelsohn
#78. Our minds are a battle ground between good and bad ideas; we are whatever side wins the battle
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#79. What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.
Robert Kazinsky
#80. 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.
Vincent Van Gogh
#81. As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends; the line between good and evil is murky indeed; and nothing goes quite as we expect. With eye-popping plot twists and rollicking good action, Half a King is definitely a full adventure.
Rick Riordan
#82. It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
Charles Caleb Colton
#83. Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
Anatole France
#84. The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.
Elaine Pagels
#85. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
Kurt Vonnegut
#86. This struggle between good and evil, fresh and stale, new and decrepit,
between the vigor of moral youth and the dotage of senility, is of positive benefit, for it keeps the perennial moral values alive
Fazlur Rahman
#87. If good men pretend to be villains, how is anybody supposed to know the difference between them?
Sarah Rees Brennan
#88. And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces.
Deepak Chopra
#89. While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#90. No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.
Roger Rosenblatt
#91. MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.
Ambrose Bierce
#92. One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages of fiction.
Robert Poe
#93. To put it simply, when you assert that there is such a thing as evil, you must assume there is such a thing as good. When you say there is such a thing as good, you must assume there is a moral law by which to distinguish between good and evil.
Frank Turek
#94. Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital mistake of distinguishing between good and evil.
Mabel Collins
#95. You must cultivate your wisdom and spirit. Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the Ways of different arts one by one. When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realized the wisdom of strategy.
Miyamoto Musashi
#96. The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods
Irving Kristol
#97. Conscience tells us in our innermost being of the presence of God and of the moral difference between good and evil; but this is a fragmentary message, in no way as distinct and comprehensive as the lessons of the Bible.
Billy Graham
#98. A tolerance that no longer distinguishes between good and evil would become chaotic and self-destructive, just as a freedom that did not respect the freedom of others or find the common measure of our respective liberties would become anarchy and destroy authority.
Pope Benedict XVI
#99. So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed. And justice comes with a sell-by date. In that case, you'd better hurry. You wouldn't want your heroism to spoil.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#100. The contrast between good and evil fades by diluting the essence of one or the other.
Craig Smedley
