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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

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

It is important to remember that good overcomes evil — Sunday Adelaja

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

The power is neither evil not good; it simply exists. It is up to the mind of man to put it to use. — Terry Goodkind

This was an evil choice. Which way should he choose? And if both led to terror and death, what good lay in choice? — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

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

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it. — Pope Francis

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

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

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

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

Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world? — Piper Kerman

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. — J.K. Rowling

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil. — Nazr Mohammed

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

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

All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. — Carlton Smith

All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on. — Rufus Wainwright

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

You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. — Antonio Porchia

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

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. — Alice Walker

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

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good. — John Fowles

We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise. — Hans Christian Andersen

We are all measured, good or evil, by the wrong we do to others; — Shirley Jackson

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

Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

It has been said that for evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing. — Charles F. Aked

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. — Plato

Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good. — Marianne Williamson

Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil. — Joyce Rachelle

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good. — George Eliot

You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone! — Rachel Bilson

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

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost. — Stephen King

Good and evil are silly lies, nonsense put forth to plague honest sensible men. — George R R Martin

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good. — Comte De Lautreamont

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer. — Swami Vivekananda

I write because I always want good to win over evil — Anamika Mishra

The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act. — Dean Koontz

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill. — Gail Carriger

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil. — Benjamin Whichcote

Maybe this wasn't a good idea. He didn't have time to fight an evil symbiot. He had a softball tournament on Sunday. — Adam Graham

You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good. — Leo Tolstoy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate
an unjust status quo,
good men must seek to bring into being
a real order of justice. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The evil never attains to any real friendship, either with good or evil. — Plato

In order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck. — Gautama Buddha

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

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing. — Edmund Burke

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. — Anthony Burgess

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone. — William James

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be. — Charles Van Doren

There is more goodness than evil in the world, but you know, you still got to work at it. — Lasky Kathryn

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us. — Matthew Woodring Stover

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. — Aristotle.

Look not at
the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow. — Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is. — Simone Weil

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