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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

Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped. — Neil Gaiman

Knowledge is power, but how you use that power defines whether you're good, or evil. — Daniel Jackson

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better. — Claudius

There are heroes in evil as well as in good. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. — William Styron

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can. — Harold S. Kushner

There can be no evil, nor any good, without intent. — R.A. Salvatore

The sooner the jihadis go up to their imagined #heaven, the sooner our earth would be a heaven. — Fakeer Ishavardas

Simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it a 'good. — Robert A. Heinlein

... if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil — Clive Barker

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

With each daunting step, the armor I'd always worn like a protective cloak unraveled, and my footing faltered. — E.R. Pierce

People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good. — Sebastian Horsley

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

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. — Benjamin Banneker

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. — James F. Cooper

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things. — Austin O'Malley

The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness. — Eugene H. Peterson

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 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

No accumulation of good, no matter how vast, undoes an evil; no rescue of the future, no matter how successful, undoes a murder in the past. — Timothy Snyder

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153 — Friedrich Nietzsche

No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil. — Tsugumi Ohba

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil. — Bhumibol Adulyadej

When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil. — Sathya Sai Baba

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

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

Good people can't imagine evil. It catches us by surprise, and it always will. — Lisa Scottoline

Evil can be undone, but it cannot "develop" into good. — C.S. Lewis

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return. — Thiruvalluvar

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

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. — John Locke

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

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil. — Samuel Johnson

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

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good. — Fulton J. Sheen

Find good in what the world says is evil. — Chuck Palahniuk

Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness. — Thomas Boston

The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving. — Sydney, Lady Morgan

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war. — Dan Quayle

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

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good. — Arthur Guiterman

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil. — Washington Irving

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good. — Mark Twain

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

I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men. — Veronica Roth

So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil. — Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth. — Gautama Buddha

Of course, apologies are rarely acceptable to true believers - or to anyone who believes in *pure* good, or in pure evil. — John Irving

The clown was an evil one. They're either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter. — Chris Thrall

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

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men. — Edmund Burke

Ceaselessly, evil battles with good, right clashes with wrong, darkness comes against the light, and the counterfeit struggles to supplant the real. — Bob Larson

Whoever neglects doing good is inviting addiction to evil. — Thich Nhat Hanh

When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had. — Ambrose Bierce

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

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits. — Raheel Farooq

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

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that. — Neil Gaiman

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another. — Annette Bening

Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be. — Slade Combs

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. — Anne Rice

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. — John Petit-Senn

One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention. — Thomas Aquinas

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

Evil's a thing of the mind. We humans got the full measure of it ourselves.
Is that right? Are you evil, Sarah Mary?
I ain't good. — Alden Bell

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within. — David Gemmell

Many people make devices that can be used for good or evil. You cannot blame the blacksmith when the swords he crafts are used to kill. — Lindsay Buroker

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance. — John Milton

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. — Gautama Buddha

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. — Robert Southey

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

Evil thenceforth became my good. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

God, he was an evil bastard, but boy was he good! — MFR

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

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

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

We must substitute fear for faith, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Sometimes evil win; not because good people are passive, but because evil play dirty while good play by the rules. — Jeanette Coron

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

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? — Anthony Burgess

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

Hate will destroy you. Let love be the basis of which you live your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I do not believe in a mixture of good and evil in the world, or in myself. All is Good. — Emma Curtis Hopkins