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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.
— Francis Bacon
A good man produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil man pro- duces evil things from his storeroom of evil. Matthew 12:35
— Beth Moore
I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.
— William Styron
The sooner the jihadis go up to their imagined #heaven, the sooner our earth would be a heaven.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
... if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
— Clive Barker
With each daunting step, the armor I'd always worn like a protective cloak unraveled, and my footing faltered.
— E.R. Pierce
There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
— Jordan B. Peterson
Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.
— Gen Urobuchi
She was betting on the fact that people were basically good, despite all the Evil in the world.
— Paulo Coelho
Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.
— Luigi Pirandello
Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.
— Pema Chodron
The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.
— Milan Kundera
The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured.
— Anthony Burgess
I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.
— Ruth St. Denis
Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Show me your good side and I will show you mine
— Kazeem Olalekan
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.
— Jonathan Edwards
Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!
— Tasha Smith
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
There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.
— David Gemmell
Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.
— Matthew Woodring Stover
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.
— Cassandra Clare
This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.
— Ayn Rand
what is important is not that in every man are the roots of good and evil, but which of the two prevails.
— Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov
The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.
— Philip Zimbardo
To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.
— Gautama Buddha
Say that evil happens when good men do nothing. And the Democrats prove it also happens when mediocre people do nothing.
— Bill Maher
The Bible may be an arresting and
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins
There is more evil than good when we preach the miracle centered gospel instead if the kingdom gospel.
— Sunday Adelaja
To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.
— Dogen
The clown was an evil one. They're either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.
— Chris Thrall
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.
— Swami Vivekananda
The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.
— Martin Luther
The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.
— Amish Tripathi
The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.
— Abhijit Naskar
There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.
— Joe Hill
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
— John Steinbeck
To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.
— J. Budziszewski
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
— Alice Walker
Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
— Solon
I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.
— Charles Van Doren
Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'
— A. E. Waite
And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference ...
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
— Walt Whitman
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
What's the one thing Evil can never have ... and the one thing Good can never do without?
— Soman Chainani
Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.
— Michel Houellebecq
Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods
— Irving Kristol
Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions.
— Imagawa Sadayo
I believe we are our own gods, and our own devils. Good and evil doesn't exist out there in the world, it exists in each and every one of us.
— K.A. Hill
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
There isn't a man on earth who doesn't at times pronounce an opinion on good and evil, even if it be only to find fault with somebody else.
— Simone Weil
Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
— Richard John Neuhaus
Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?
— Jim Butcher
My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.
— Richard Dawkins
The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.
— Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
I do not believe in a mixture of good and evil in the world, or in myself. All is Good.
— Emma Curtis Hopkins
Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good.
— William, Saroyan
For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Ceaselessly, evil battles with good, right clashes with wrong, darkness comes against the light, and the counterfeit struggles to supplant the real.
— Bob Larson
My condolences, you're still alive.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.
— Neil Gaiman
There is more goodness than evil in the world, but you know, you still got to work at it.
— Lasky Kathryn
Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
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
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
— George Orwell
Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.
— Karen Marie Moning
Power is not happiness.
— William Godwin
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.
— Mark Hart
If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it.
— Rebecca McKinsey
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
There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.
— Simone Weil
Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.
— Rudy Rucker
A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
— Jean-Paul Sartre