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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

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

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

Some people are stupid that they actually think that there are thick neon lines separating good and evil. — Tahereh Mafi

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

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

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

This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana. — Jane Grigson

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

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

Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy. — Gen Urobuchi

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

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure. — Dalai Lama XIV

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

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

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

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Every morning most of the people wake up alive than dead, so I do have a faith there is still some goodness left in the man. — Amit Kalantri

Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government — Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom. — Coventry Patmore

Most people are genuinely good, sweetheart, and even the evil ones have some good in them. -Shannon Hale — Shannon Hale

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

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph. — Thomas Carlyle

In the hearts of men lies both good and evil. The two coexist. Some men become good, and others become evil. It is the way of this world.
-Kikyo — Rumiko Takahashi

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil. — Samuel Johnson

The conduct of some professed Christians is so lacking in kindness and courtesy that their good is evil spoken of. — Ellen G. White

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them. — Thomas Watson

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma. — Luc De Clapiers

Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are. — Judith Flanders

Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, that must mean that darkness existed as well. — Erica Sehyun Song

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. — Swami Vivekananda

Some days are better than other days
A good day is getting 10 royalties and 10 great reviews — Ray Mathews

What's devil to some is good to some others. — Elizabeth Madox Roberts

Man allowed by God to do good and evil.
That's why some of angels feel so jealous. — Toba Beta

There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil. — Plato

Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners. — Ephrem The Syrian

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true. — Richard Dawkins

Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night? — Jim Butcher

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

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. — Richard John Neuhaus

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind. — Fakeer Ishavardas

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

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

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