Good And Evil Quotes - Page 16

• What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.

  Benito Mussolini

  Blood, Evil, Needs

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• The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.

  Benito Mussolini

  Country, Long, Evil

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• 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

  Believe, Men, Differences

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.971, Ballantine Books

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• He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.

  Machado de Assis

  Art, Evil, Balance

  Machado de Assis (2015). “Iaiá Garcia”, p.23, University Press of Kentucky

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• Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.

  Erik Larson

  Book, Men, Cities

  "The Devil in the White City". Book by Erik Larson, February 11, 2003.

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• Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Art, War, Evil

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

  Mark Haddon

  Believe, Evil, World

  FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Jan 16, 2017

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• Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

  Carl Sagan

  Cutting, Two, Evil

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• What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sacrifice, Evil, Misunderstood

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• I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous. I was gloomy--other children were merry and talkative. I felt myself superior to them--but was considered inferior: I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world--none understood me: and I learned to hate.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Children, Hate, Evil

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• Faeries are fallen angels," said Dorothea, "cast down out of heaven for their pride." "That's the legend," Jace said. "It's also said that they're the offspring of demons and angels, which always seemed more likely to me. Good and evil, mixing together. Faeries are as beautiful as angels are supposed to be, but they have a lot of mischief and cruelty in them. And you'll notice most of them avoid midday sunlight—" "For the devil has no power," said Dorothea softly, as if she were reciting an old rhyme, "except in the dark.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Angel, Pride

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Integrity, Evil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

  Rick Yancey

  Crazy, Evil, Would Be

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.18, Penguin

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• The devil is a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Gentleman, Devil

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• Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

  Joseph Stalin

  Evil, Division, Pope

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• MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fighting, Evil, Doctrine

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.162, University of Georgia Press

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• Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

  George Lucas

  Loyalty, Stars, War

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• The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

  George Orwell

  Two, Evil, Choices

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Eye, Dark, Light

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.108, Advaita Ashrama

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• To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion; and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Justice, Principles

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.235

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• Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.

  Marquis de Sade

  Strong, Evil, Perfect

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• We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Powerful, Evil, Spirit

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1964). “The New Park Street Pulpit: Containing Sermons Preached and Rev”

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• Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Evil, Sin, Good Work

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.433, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Evil, Would Be, Action

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756”, p.593, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sleep, Evil, Purpose

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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