Good And Evil Human Nature Quotes

#1. The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

Xunzi

#2. How do evil people find the strength to do good?

Keith Hollihan

#3. For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

Plato

#4. 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.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#5. Good and evil are both fundamental features of the human mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. People do terrible things. People do beautiful things. It's against the black backdrop of evil that the shining light of good shows the brightest. We can't just focus on the darkness of the night, or we'll miss out on the stars.

Wendy Mills

#7. 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.

Richard Le Gallienne

#8. Man is meant for good but designed for evil.

Raheel Farooq

#9. And of course, the more enchanted you get, the more you feel that you are not enchanted at all

C.S. Lewis

#10. He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

Saint Augustine

#11. She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. Humans can be as good as they can be bad. Because goodness and evil both are biological traits of the mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.

Jane Smiley

#14. Do not let the evil become our masters, but make the good reign upon the world.

Abhijit Naskar

#15. All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.

Plato

#16. If you want to ask how evil begins, just look to basic human nature. What's good gets bent, and bad is the inevitable result.

Anonymous

#17. Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.

Muriel Lester

#18. To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

Thomas Secker

#19. unless an evil thought is born in a twisted mind, human nature is repelled by crime. However, civilization has given us needs, vices and artificial appetites which sometimes cause us to repress our good instincts and lead us to wrongdoing.

Alexandre Dumas

#20. There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Benjamin Haydon

#21. The evil that is in this world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that however isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue;

Albert Camus

#22. Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

P. J. O'Rourke

#23. Nature is under control but not disturbed.

Beatrix Of The Netherlands

#24. Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good.

Suzy Kassem

#25. In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And we
have no right to do that - we never have had, not since the creation of the world.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#26. You're either good, or you're clever.

Mackenzi Lee

#27. I hope you haven't given up on the S.Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great many sheep in wolves' clothing. If not for S.Q.'s good nature, we'd never have escaped.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#28. In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.

Fyodor Stepun

#29. A merry Christmas to all my friends except two.

W.C. Fields

#30. To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Plato

#31. Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#32. The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.

Kirk Douglas