Good And Evil Quotes - Page 5

• You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Evil, Results, Cases

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.304, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Truth, Unconditional Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.84, Beacon Press

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• Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

  Bruno Dumont

  Evil, Concepts

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

  Antonia Fraser

  People, Evil, Moral

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• When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Sweet, Evil, Soul

  Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Luciano Martinengo (1982). “Poems”, New York : Random House

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• On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the opposites. . . . It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit's task and charge to reconcile and reunite the opposites in the human individual through a special development of the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Son, Opposites, Evil

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

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Morality, Aliens

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil, Translated by R. Rees, "The responsibility of writers," p. 169, 1968.

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

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Evil, Be Good, Lays

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.72

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• Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

  Hans Bender

  Evil, Earth, Mass

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• Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Thankful, Encouragement, Power

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• Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

  James Rollins

  Biblical, Evil, Tangled

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2014

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• Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

  Jane Porter

  Evil, Wicked, Vices

  Jane Porter (1801). “The two princes of Persia: addressed to youth”, p.40

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• Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Power, Evil, Universe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2628, Manonmani Publishers

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• Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

  Erin Morgenstern

  Princess, Hero, Dragons

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.404, Random House

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• In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.

  James E. Faust

  Life, Happiness, Struggle Between Good And Evil

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• Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Vanity, Light

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• Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.

  Rumi

  Hate, Mean, Reality

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• He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son.

  Saint Patrick

  Father, Son, Evil

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• Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Death, Brother, Spring

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• Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, Essence, Evil

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• 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

  Evil, Choices, Free Will

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• For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

  T. S. Eliot

  Evil, Deeds, Ends

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.256, Faber & Faber

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• Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Doctors, Evil, Disease

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• It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

  Benito Mussolini

  Evil, Affair, States

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• Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Essence, Evil, Dying

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