Top 100 Quotes About Good Evil

#1. As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action

Maitreya Upanishad

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#2. Everything about this is embarrassing" she said. "D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

Philip Pullman

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#3. To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures

Hayao Miyazaki

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#4. But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?

Jose Rizal

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#5. I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

William Gibson

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#6. This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.

Aleister Crowley

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#7. The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?

Amish Tripathi

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#8. You are alone my evil and my good With you I have everything - without you nothing

Louise Labe

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#9. 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

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#10. The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

Henry David Thoreau

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#11. Integrity, firmness, and perseverance are qualities that all should seek earnestly to cultivate; for they clothe the possessor with a power which is irresistible - a power which makes him strong to do good, strong to resist evil, strong to bear adversity.

Ellen G. White

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#12. And still I stayed to plan all my revenge, my vengeance against those who had turned me from good to evil, and made of me what I was going to be from this day forward.

Virginia C. Andrews

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

David Benioff

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#14. Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

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#15. 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

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#16. 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

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#17. Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.

Philippe Kahn

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#18. The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.

Amit Abraham

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#19. If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh?

Sherman Alexie

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#20. I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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#21. For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

Saint Augustine

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#22. Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.

Giordano Bruno

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

Ann Leckie

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#24. Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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#25. Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

Tryon Edwards

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

Ramana Maharshi

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#27. Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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#28. Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order had wrought a galaxy in which good capitulated to evil, where human feelings - Aryn's feelings - were crushed under the weight of Jedi nonattachment.

Paul S. Kemp

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#29. All good things come from love; God used the cross a symbol of His love, to paralyze and defeat all forces of evil. God is love. John 3:16

Felix Wantang

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#30. Just because our opinions on what is right are different, doesn't make me evil.

Adam Scythe

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#31. None of us is fully able to perceive the truth that shines through another person's window, nor the falsehood that we may perceive as truth. Thus, we can easily mistake another's good for evil, and our own evil for good.

Forrest Church

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#32. All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

Leo Tolstoy

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#33. We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

H. Rider Haggard

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#34. In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or gratification, rather than run the risk of its display. This latter evil is never felt under a good government.

Jean-Baptiste Say

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#35. For the greater good":
the phrase that always precedes
the greatest evil.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

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#36. I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

Octavia E. Butler

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#37. A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.

Melissa Marr

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#38. What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.

Saint Augustine

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#39. It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.

Gene Wolfe

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#40. What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories
that restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn't have any way to control.

Richelle Mead

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#41. 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

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#42. You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

Nicolas Malebranche

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#43. For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

John Milton

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#44. Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#45. Try to use your beauty for good, not evil.

Leeyanne Moore

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#46. I loved his enormous aptitude for compassion, adoration and respect. That was his way of showing love. He lacked the capacity for wickedness, and that caressed my belief that he might just be an angel. My angel.

S.G. Holster

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#47. Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

Carl Jung

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#48. 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

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#49. I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Lao-Tzu

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#50. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.

Hayao Miyazaki

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#51. What would be the best therapy? Punching the evil sod in the knob! [ ... ]
It doesn't undo it though. You'd feel good for a second and then there's just emptiness. It's like bingeing. After the chocolate there's the wrappers.

Rae Earl

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#52. All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Sophocles

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#53. Berdyaev remarks that "no one ever proposes evil ends: evil is always disguised as good, and detracts from the good."[49] Yet the resort to violence is precisely where evil seeps in. Besides,

Alexandre Christoyannopoulos

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#54. 27If you search for good, you will find favor; but if you search for evil, it will find you!

Anonymous

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#55. 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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#56. Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.

Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

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#57. If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Swami Vivekananda

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#58. In innocence there is no strength against evil [ ... ] but there is strength in it for good.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#59. 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

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#60. Ask yourself what it is that a code of moral values does to a man's life, and why he can't exist without it, and what happens to him if he accepts the wrong standard, by which the evil is the good.

Ayn Rand

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#61. A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

Murray Kempton

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#62. Goodness is more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love.

Colum McCann

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#63. You pronounced your words as if you don't acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?

Mikhail Bulgakov

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#64. Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#65. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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#66. Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for? ... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.

Margaret Thatcher

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#67. People's good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

William Shakespeare

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#68. The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.

Sallust

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#69. He pointed at Abby's electric-blue pumps. "Women wear these evil creations around to confuse us. Sure, they make a girl's legs look good, but that's the black magic, my friends. They want us to feel their pain and not understand why.

Tessa Bailey

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#70. By choosing to declare what's good and evil, you seek to determine your own destiny.

Wm. Paul Young

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#71. Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#72. It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander

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#73. A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

William Faulkner

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#74. The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

Anthony Trollope

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#75. Satan is the master of the ultimate double-talk and sophistry. He calls evil good and continues to confuse men with his cleverly disguised untruths.

Billy Graham

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

Matthieu Ricard

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#77. Whatever contributes to the preservation of life is good; all that destroys life is evil.

Gerhard Domagk

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#78. 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 ...

Joseph Campbell

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#79. I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life are not merely mistaken, but evil, and yet, from a purely literary viewpoint, on his own terms, I have to evaluate him as a good writer.

Ayn Rand

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#80. Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

Mark Twain

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#81. It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Anthony Burgess

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#82. Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds.
- Matthias

Brian Jacques

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#83. We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.

Michel Onfray

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#84. There is no place so dark that light cannot lead the way.

Slade Combs

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#85. The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.

Ralph Nader

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#86. In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

Robert S. McNamara

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#87. Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.

Gautama Buddha

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#88. We have fallen on hard times of the spirit, with many of the people more concerned with fear of evil than contemplation of the good.

Clifford D. Simak

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#89. What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.

Terry Brooks

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#90. Love must master good and evil.

Paulo Coelho

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#91. To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Petrarch

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#92. Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

Bob Riley

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

Fakeer Ishavardas

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#94. A person who knows all that is good and all that is true
as much as can be known
but does not resist evils, knows nothing.

Emanuel Swedenborg

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#95. Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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#96. The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#97. Within the human, good or evil aims are never ancient. They are sometimes masqueraded when reinvented in modern means

Dew Platt

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#98. Even when we do not choose evil, we choose the good so half heartedly and with so many qualifications that mediocrity becomes our canonized statis quo.

Benedict Groeschel

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#99. It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

Michael Shannon

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#100. Be thankful for the good, be patient under the evil, and presume not to enquire why the latter predominates

Charlotte Temple

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