Good And Evil Quotes

No one, good or evil, ceases to exist; life is energy and energy cannot be created or destroyed; it is recycled.

~ Patricia D. Cornwell

Come, let me know whether thou art acreature of good or not.' And he replied: `I am a man.

~ Chrétien De Troyes

I shall tell you about God once you've reached your imaginary heaven. Then, give me a call.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

You still are? There go my plans! And the suit I had bought to attend your funeral. Well, well. Anyway, do call me up when you an't.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Conquer evil with good deeds.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There’s what you’re forced to do, there’s what you choose, and everything else—most things—are a mix. At best, you’ll spend your life trying not to get hurt, but trying not to do the hurting, either. You won’t always come through, but it’s the best anyone can do. It’s the trying I’d call good.

~ Alexandra Duncan

Every morning most of the people wake up alive than dead, so I do have a faith there is still some goodness left in the man.

~ Amit Kalantri

When you push someone's head under water for 5 minutes, they will drown. It doesn't matter if the person is a sinner or a saint. It's just a natural process. If their head is under water, the lack of oxygen will make them drown. That rule applies to everyone, good or bad, equally. It doesn't matter if the drowning person has strong moral fiber.And it doesn't matter if you're a good or a bad person, once you become addicted to drugs. What happens next is inevitable. It's a natural process that happens in everyone's brain, once the drugs take over. So don't ever fool yourself into thinking that only weak or bad people get addicted.

~ Oliver Markus

Were one to call your stupid ism good, well then, one would either be equally idiotic, or a fool, or no good.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is rather much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between two irreconcilable views of the world.

~ Daniel Mendelsohn

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

~ Joe Hill

I believe we are our own gods, and our own devils. Good and evil doesn’t exist out there in the world, it exists in each and every one of us.

~ K.a. Hill

There is no virtue or vice in a transitive verb, everything depends on the direct object. 'I LOVE' could be virtuous or not - you could love ice cream, Jesus, child porn, my country, hurting people, the lust of the flesh. Love is not an automatic virtue. Hatred is not an automatic vice. What's the direct object? from Debate In The Age Of The Glitter-Bomb in The City, Fall 2013.

~ Douglas Wilson

I kept staring at the moon. I'm not sure if its light was good or evil. I thought it might not be either. The moon just shines with the light of chaos. Mysteriously. Brightly. That must not be either good or evil. Just as the rules of this world are not all good.

~ Fuminori Nakamura

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

~ Matthew Woodring Stover

Just because our opinions on what is right are different, doesn’t make me evil.

~ Adam Scythe

There is more evil than good when we preach the miracle centered gospel instead of the kingdom gospel.

~ Sunday Adelaja

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

~ Brenna Yovanoff

It’s easy to be a hero when your own survival is aligned with someone else’s, when your victory is a victory for your entire clan.

~ Delilah S. Dawson

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

~ Ellis Peters

Any fool can start a religion. And many do.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Whatsoever is outside, know, is Within.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Jihadis! Please go to your imaginary heaven - out there, nowhere. Us, the infidel lot, have helluva lot to do after you leave. Out here.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.

~ Sarah J. Maas

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

~ Terry Pratchett

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

~ Anthony Burgess

The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?

~ Wilkie Collins

You—you were like me. You were a child. A normal child. And that was taken from you.”“Does that bother you?”“Well, it certainly makes you harder to hate.

~ Sabaa Tahir

You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.For those who limp go not backwards.But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Maybe it’s not as clear-cut as that. Maybe it’s the very presence of one thing – light or darkness – that necessitates the existence of the other.Think about it, people couldn’t become legendary heroes if they hadn’t first done something to combat darkness. Doctors could do no good if thereweren’t diseases for them to treat.

~ Jessica Shirvington

One thing yo learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

~ Neal Shusterman

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

~ Kahlil Gibran

It's going to be like an...aura, I guess.He looked down at me and raised an eyebrow. Explain?Like even though there are outside forces pushing through the walls, in here it's like a bubble of goodness. Like coming home.I could feel him smiling and it encouraged me to elaborate. When I think of how others would see it, I imagine them seeing a force of goodness overshadowing a force of evil, protecting it.

~ Jessica Shirvington

Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no more than a reflex to danger, like the automatic jump at the pin-prick. Perhaps there were no virtues, unless jumping at pin-pricks was a virtue, and humanity only a mechanical donkey led on by the iron carrot of love, through the pointless treadmill of reproduction.

~ T.h. White

Within the infant rind of this small flowerPoison hath residence and medicine power.For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart.Two such opposèd kings encamp them still,In man as well as herbs—grace and rude will. And where the worser is predominant,Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.(Inside the little rind of this weak flower, there is both poison and powerful medicine. If you smell it, you feel good all over your body. But if you taste it, you die. There are two opposite elements in everything, in men as well as in herbs—good and evil. When evil is dominant, death soon kills the body like cancer.)

~ William Shakespeare

Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

~ Sheri Holman

And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.

~ William Faulkner

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

~ John Irving

Deep inside, the majority of people had the sneaking suspicion that evil was more powerful than good and could be counteracted only by more evil.

~ Randall Garrett