Good And Evil Quotes

• I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Being Strong, Peace

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Evil, Different, Impression

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• Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Evil

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• No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Happiness, Mistake, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, Cosimo, Inc.

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  The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Integrity, Patriotic

  "The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.

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• Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

  C. S. Lewis

  People, Evil, Arithmetic

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

  George R. R. Martin

  Real, Evil, Battle

  "Sunsets of High Renown". Interview with Nick Gevers, www.infinityplus.co.uk. December 2000.

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• To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Evil, Accomplices

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Truth, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Evil, Choices, Accountability

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• 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

  Evil, Giving, Adam

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.33, Franciscan Media

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• Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

  Matthieu Ricard

  Evil, Suffering, Term

  Matthieu Ricard, Trinh Xuan Thuan (2009). “The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet”, p.19, Broadway Books

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• The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Running, Heart, Men

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• There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Illusion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.194, e-artnow

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• There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Evil, Harry Potter Movie

  "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Yarn, Together

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 4, sc. 3, l. [83]

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• Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Fighting, Thinking

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

  William Penn

  Mean, Evil, May

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Evil, Done

  "The Portable Nietzsche".

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• For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

  Aristotle

  Real, Animal, Views

  Aristotle (1987). “A New Aristotle reader”

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• Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Powerful, Evil

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• When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Evil, Feels

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Mar 06, 2015

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• All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Evil, Jekyll, Humans

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  False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

  Plato

  Truth, Attitude, Lying

  Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

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