No Good Without Evil Quotes

#1. They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#2. The most basic principle of Yin and Yang is that one cannot exist without the other," I stated, stepping towards her. "There can be no light without the dark, no good without evil, and no you without me; we are complementary opposites that balance each other.

Meka James

#3. It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance ... no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just life, that's all.

Janet Morris

#4. Without the law commanding good there could be no evil. But the same law makes it possible for the creature to exist. Without the law man would sink into nothingness; the law determines his humanity.

Herman Dooyeweerd

#5. Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth.

Dean Koontz

#6. The Bible says no one has ever looked upon God and lived. God is perfectly good, and can't be in the presence of evil, even the smallest evil. Without his Son's sacrifice as a covering, we can't be in the presence of God without being destroyed, because his anger would be kindled against us.

John Michael Hileman

#7. 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

#8. To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love.

Maximus The Confessor

#9. However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

Joseph Butler

#10. Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

Donald Miller

#11. You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?

Mikhail Bulgakov

#12. Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Bread sets free; but does not necessarily set free for good ends
that dear illusion of so many generous hearts. It sets a man free to choose: it often sets free for the bad, but man has a right to that choice and to that evil, without which he is no longer a man.

Francoise Mallet-Joris

#14. First to those universal principles I have spoken of: these you must keep at command, and without them neither sleep nor rise, drink nor eat nor deal with men: the principle that no one can control another's will, and that the will alone is the sphere of good and evil.

Epictetus

#15. And why not?' the merchant replied seriously. 'Why not have doubts? It's nothing but a human and good thing'.
'What?'
'Doubt. Only an evil man, master Geralt, is without it. And no one escapes his destiny'.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#16. For the person who is grounded in the timeless truth of the universe, there is no life and no death. He or she can experience eternal joy without being limited by the definitions of good and evil. The essence of Oneness always exists within us.

Ilchi Lee

#17. Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

Jeremy Bentham

#18. Without man there would be no evil. But there was also no good, nothing moral built over the world of fact. Humans were responsible for it all.

Karl Marlantes

#19. There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

Pliny The Elder

#20. There can be no evil, nor any good, without intent.

R.A. Salvatore

#21. Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

George Bernard Shaw

#22. Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

Swami Vivekananda

#23. Discover thou shalt/That wherever good is found,/Evil is nearby.

Ian Doescher

#24. There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

#25. Man's strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?

Elie Wiesel

#26. This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

David Benioff