Good And Evil Quotes - Page 2

• Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

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• If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

  Dennis Prager

  Differences, Evil, Useless

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

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• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  Hannah Arendt

  Inspirational, Peace, Emo

  "The Life of the Mind". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: "Thinking", 1978.

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• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• Of two evils, choose neither.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Two, Evil

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• The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family... The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Struggle, Inspiration

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• Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Roots, Greatest Wealth

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• Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.

  Billy Graham

  God, Evil, Suffering

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• Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Evil, Culture, Spine

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.200, Macmillan

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• When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Justice, Suffering

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.434, Hamilton Books

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• Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

  Laozi

  Men, Evil, Good Man

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?

  Ted Dekker

  Evil, Belief, Moral

  Ted Dekker (2008). “Sinner”, p.123, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Evil

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• To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Evil, Rejection

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• Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

  Anatole France

  Nature, Evil, Principles

  "The Revolt of the Angels".

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• There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

  Tom Robbins

  Moving, Good Luck, Evil

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.92, Bantam

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• The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Evil, Tree, Tree Of Knowledge

  Henry David Thoreau (1862). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau”, p.381

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• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Sad, Religious

  Pensees no. 894 (1670 ed.)

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• I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Hate, Men, Evil

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• All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Government, Evil, Anarchy

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• So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Evil, Path

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• And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creativity, Evil, Firsts

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• You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can’t compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, “They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.” It’s complete intolerance.

  Gary Ackerman

  Country, Animal, People

  "A Congressional Exit Interview". Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, www.bloomberg.com. June 22, 2012.

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• The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Ideas, Differences

  "The Montessori Reader".

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• I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Kindness, Believe

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