Good And Evil Quotes - Page 17

• You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

  Khalil Gibran

  Evil, House, Thieves

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

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• It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The crucial distinction lies in their structure, i.e., the manner in which the pieces are assembled. Evil is disintegration, an angry juxtaposition of alienated opposites, with parts always striving to repress other parts. Good is the synthesis and reconciliation of these same pieces.

  Charles Hampden-Turner

  Lying, Opposites, Differences

  Charles Hampden-Turner (1982). “Maps of the Mind”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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

  Emma Curtis Hopkins

  Believe, Evil, World

  Emma Curtis Hopkins (2007). “Scientific Christian Mental Practice”, p.85, Cosimo, Inc.

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• They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.

  George Washington

  Military, Evil, Liberty

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• The ends and means are a seamless web.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Evil, Ends

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• Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Light, Evil

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.1344, Macmillan

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• Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may

  John Irving

  Believe, Men, Winning

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• A failure to learn about Satan's plan for man here on earth would be fatal to the full exercise of free agency. The reason for this lies in the fact that . . . free agency is the opportunity to choose between good and evil. To intelligently make such a choice one must understand the alternatives-both of them. To the extent one is ignorant of these alternatives, to that same extent he has not made a complete choice. Until a person understands Satan's plan, he can never be certain he does not believe in it and is not helping to carry it out.

  H. Verlan Andersen

  Lying, Believe, Exercise

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• If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Wisdom, Peace, Fun

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973.

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• People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

  Joy Page

  Beautiful, Dark, Light

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• Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

  A. E. Waite

  Men, Evil, Tree

  A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Evil, Sacred

  Thomas Paine, Mark Philp (1998). “Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings”, p.400, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Evil, Perfect

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• whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person.

  Hualing Nieh Engle

  Evil, Giving, People

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• In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes.

  David Wenham

  Sex, Dark, Lakes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You could generally find out whether a man had been a horse-thief, or an embezzler or a wife-beater, if you worked hard enough, but acts of kindness, of charity, a gay spirit, vanished without leaving a trace.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Horse, Kindness, Gay

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• Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.

  Lee Child

  Character, Evil, Doubt

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• Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

  Benjamin Rush

  Mother, School, Evil

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• I am still sure of absolute wrong but much less certain of absolute right.

  Jill Tweedie

  Evil, Certain, Stills

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• The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for each person an equivalent result.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Evil, Philosopher, Results

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital mistake of distinguishing between good and evil.

  Mabel Collins

  Mistake, Men, Evil

  Mabel Collins (2012). “Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold”, p.139, tredition

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• I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Truth, Believe

  Alice Miller (2002). “The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self”, p.9, Basic Books

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• Second, if you disbelieve in the reality of good and evil spirit agents, you fundamentally change the narrative of Scripture. The motif of spiritual warfare is a through-line of both the Old and New Testaments (NT). And in the NT, the meaning of what Jesus was doing in his life, ministry, death and resurrection is fundamentally tied up with the belief in spiritual warfare. Take away Satan, and you take away one of the most fundamental reasons Jesus came to earth!

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Spiritual, Jesus, Reality

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be easily achieved. ... if this optimism appears too superficial, they will try to create a kind of anti-God: the U.S.S.R. That is Evil, and it only needs to be annihilated to re-establish the reign of Good.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Believe, Evil, Optimism

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• We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Evil, Balance

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.540

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