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• It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad.

  Robert Browning

  Evil, Mad, Being Me

  Robert Browning (2012). “My Last Duchess and Other Poems”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.

  Paul Tillich

  Character, Evil, Creative

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• Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Evil

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.137, Shambhala Publications

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• Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

  Origen

  Freedom, Evil, Free Will

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• People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.

  Louise Erdrich

  People, Evil, Forget

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• With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

  Steven Weinberg

  God, Religious, Atheist

  "Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.

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• The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.

  Jeff Cooper

  Men, Gun, Evil

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• Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

  Euripides

  Evil, May, Should

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• Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

  Bertrand Russell

  Views, Evil, Achievement

  Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.176, Psychology Press

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• The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Heart, Humility

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1974.

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• Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

  John Cheever

  Wisdom, Two, Evil

  1956 Collected in The Journals,'The Late Forties and Fifties'.

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• The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “De Officiis: (English Edition)”, p.149, LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

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• The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

  M. Scott Peck

  Change, Integrity, Heart

  M. Scott Peck (2015). “The People Of The Lie”, p.290, Random House

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• Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

  Dennis Prager

  Evil, World, Conservative

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

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• I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

  Harlan Coben

  Baseball, Struggle Between Good And Evil, Games

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• Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

  John Dall

  Men, Average, Evil

  "Fictional character: Brandon Shaw". "Rope", 1948.

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• I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

  Hideo Kojima

  People, Evil, Different

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. December 12, 2000.

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• Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Evil, Fields

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• If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Men, Long

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.219, Commodius Vicus

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• Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Compassion, Evil, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?

  Eugenio Maria de Hostos

  Men, Light, Evil

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• I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil. I believe this is a big world full of men, women, and children who struggle to eat, to love, to work, to protect their families, their beliefs, and their dreams.

  Sean Penn

  Dream, Children, Believe

  "Bush Mistakenly Targeting Iraq Because of Daddy". www.mrc.org. October 21, 2002.

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• People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

  Gregory Maguire

  Fake People, Evil, Way

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• One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

  Edmund Burke

  Evil, Enemy

  William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.298

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• The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Mean, Light, Illumination

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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