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There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.
— William Blake
For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.
— Francis Bacon
It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.
— Jean De La Bruyere
There's only truth and not truth. You're either very good or evil.
— Christine O'Donnell
Knowledge is power, but how you use that power defines whether you're good, or evil.
— Daniel Jackson
There are consequence every action, whether evil or good.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Which comes first: Good or Evil? Usually evil. Good counters.
— Steve Chapman
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
— Anthony Collins
Power is not good or evil. It is what it is in the hands of the wielder.
— Karen Marie Moning
Humans have a great capacity for declaring something good or evil, without truly knowing.
— Wm. Paul Young
As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.
— Ovid
God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.
— Anonymous
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
— Jean De La Bruyere
My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good? ...
— Brent Weeks
I don't know the good or the evil of the thing. That's something that only you mortals worry about.
— Jim Butcher
We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You're either good, or you're clever.
— Mackenzi Lee
We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice.
— Anthony Horowitz
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
— Denis Diderot
Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.
— Charles Spurgeon
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
— William James
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
— Aristotle.
The law as it is considered as a rule can be no more abolished or changed than the nature of good and evil can be abolished or changed.
— Samuel Bolton
As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The game is over once we see clearly because evil succeeds only by disguising itself as good, necessary, or helpful.
— Richard Rohr
Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.
— Reinhard Bendix
Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
— Matthieu Ricard
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
It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.
— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
If you want to realize the truth, don't be for or against. The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind.
— Sengcan
Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
— Baruch Spinoza
If a culture is good or evil, it is only because of its carriers.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
— Charles Dickens
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
— Edward Dahlberg
So little knows
Any but God alone to value right
The good before him but perverts best things
To worst abuse or to their meanest use. — John Milton
Any but God alone to value right
The good before him but perverts best things
To worst abuse or to their meanest use. — John Milton
Crying is good for the soul, or so they say.
— Chelsea Ballinger
Never suppose that either the evil or the good that you do will remain secret, however strict may be your enclosure.
— Teresa Of Avila
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle.
— Jim Stovall
Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
— Plato
I wonder,' said Frodo. 'It's my doom, I think, to go to that Shadow yonder, so that a way will be found. But will good or evil show it to me?
— J.R.R. Tolkien
You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better.
— Richard Rohr
Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.
— Aldous Huxley
It doesn't matter if you're a Never, Ever, or whatever. In the end, the fairest of them all wins.
— Soman Chainani
Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil, or it's all been done before? Make good art.
— Neil Gaiman
In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.
— Mary Renault
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
— Lytton Strachey
In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
— James Russell Lowell
Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.
— William Blake
I can't remember if I am the good sister or the evil one.
— Cheryl Caldwell
The mind is the mine of man, wherein he digs out good or evil.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil ... or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
— Veronica Roth
Is he a poet? Or a genuine one? An emancipator? Or a subjugator? A good one? Or an evil one?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no honorable causes. There is no good or evil. Evil is only what we call those who oppose us.
— Michael Sullivan
Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced
— Joseph Conrad
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.
— Thomas Chalmers
How is it possible that anyone can believe in a kind of God of Evil named Satan or Devil? Surely, evil lies within oneself.
— Ralph P. Vander Heide
When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know it is dead wrong.
— Billy Graham
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.
— William James
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
I do not believe in a mixture of good and evil in the world, or in myself. All is Good.
— Emma Curtis Hopkins
The clown was an evil one. They're either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.
— Chris Thrall
It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.
— Leonard Woolf
There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
— Giacomo Casanova
Others are not born bad or good ... and neither are people, by the way.
— Sergei Lukyanenko
Only then, when no situation or character is obviously good or evil, is it truly interesting to act.
— Liv Ullmann
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
She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
— Gregory Maguire
Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of evil, or the reverse, innately sinful yet redeemable by the forces of good?
— Edward O. Wilson
All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.
— Plato
People today ... it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice.
— Brandon Sanderson
Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
— Jonathan Edwards
Within the human, good or evil aims are never ancient. They are sometimes masqueraded when reinvented in modern means
— Dew Platt
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
— Epictetus
Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.
— Paulo Coelho
Everyone is more than one thing," said Kieran. "We are more than single actions we undertake, whether they be good or evil.
— Cassandra Clare
Come, let me know whether thou art a
creature of good or not.' And he replied: 'I am a man. — Chretien De Troyes
creature of good or not.' And he replied: 'I am a man. — Chretien De Troyes
Great for good, or great for evil.
— Robert Burns