Good And Evil Quotes

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

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.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility

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

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

There has always been a battle between good and evil.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

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.

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.

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

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...

Good to evil seems evil

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil.

Power should be a check on power.

I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.

Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil," then God enters in me.

The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.

Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

Historically, means cannot be separated from ends.

By doing good we become good.

God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.