Good And Evil Quotes - Page 4

• The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Pain, Struggle, Evil

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1980). “Off Center: Essays”

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  I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Evil, Interesting

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• Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophy, Men, Names

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

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• I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

  William Styron

  Thinking, Evil, Fiction

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• The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Evil, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.18, Рипол Классик

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• We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Strong, Ignorance, Thinking

  "New Again: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2011.

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• War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Veterans Day, Peace

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Spiritual, Religious, Kindness

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• We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

  Jimmy Carter

  Veterans Day, Peace, Children

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

  John Milton

  Two, Apples, Evil

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 12

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  The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Inspirational, Men, Evil People

  Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 4 (1911)

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• We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

  Helen Keller

  Evil, Way, Knows

  Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

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• I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mother, Running, Children

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1888-1912 (Virginia Stephen)”, Harcourt on Demand

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• Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

  Adolf Hitler

  Success, Congratulations, Judging

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

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• There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Race, Evil

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• It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

  Anatole France

  Life, Nature, Believe

  Anatole France (2015). “The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France”, p.130, 谷月社

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• We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.

  Anne Bishop

  People, Evil, Kind

  Anne Bishop (1998). “Daughter of the Blood: The Black Jewels Trilogy”, p.21, Penguin

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• The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Fighting, Men, Evil

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• Evil is a form of incompetence.

  Alan Bullock

  Evil, Incompetence, Form

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• Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!

  Richard Bach

  Country, Evil, Parent

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• The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.

  Sarada Devi

  Mother, Evil, Universe

  Sarada Devi (1963). “At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi”

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• Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

  Hermann Hesse

  Responsibility, Thinking, Leader

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• Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

  C. S. Lewis

  Evil, Increase, Interest

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Evil, Aphorism

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• The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

  Stephen King

  Evil, Battle, Fascinating

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