Good And Evil Quotes

Don't make another's pain the source of your own happiness.

~ Mark Frost

It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.

~ Gene Wolfe

Sully disapproved of destruction for destruction's sake, which seemed ever more popular in the modern world, but he always took delight in burning out or otherwise eliminating Evil when Evil just couldn't keep its ugly head down and stay in the shadows, when it came right at you with all teeth bared. The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

~ Dean Koontz

There is no one who is completely evil as to lack some goodness in him.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Before eating from the tree of knowledge, Adam and Eve had no notion of Good and evil.They were kicked out of paradise, because the supposed Creator was unable to reason that giving someone free will to choose between two things while having no notion of either, would be the Himalaya of nonsense.

~ Haroutioun Bochnakian

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

~ Wallace Stevens

There isn't any good or bad, everything is either a product of pure awareness or sheer ignorance!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

But while I have never considered myself a very good person, neither can I bring myself to believe that I am spectacularly bad one. Perhaps it's simply impossible to think of oneself in such a way.

~ Donna Tartt

[But] I fear that in the individual lives of all but a few, the balance is in debit - we do so little that is positive good, even if we negatively avoid what is actively evil.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

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

~ Sunday Adelaja

I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Right and wrong stood for him as immutable as the two poles. He had never wandered in that twilight country where the nuances of evil and good cast their perplexing shadows.

~ P.d. James

Although Quirrell couldn’t fend off the dark allure of power, he did provide Harry with a lesson that guided him through the rest of his school career: there is no such thing as good and evil. We become the choices that we make.

~ Pottermore Limited

One man's god is another man's devil.

~ D.j. Lemarr

The little mutton-chopped man interrupted them to point out that in his opinion good was not the avoidance of evil, but something more positive than that: it was making the world a better place.

~ Neil Gaiman

We're the gray area, angel. We're the pieces of the puzzle they don't know what to do with, the pieces that don't quite fit into their perfect little picture, so they choose to discard us, to keep their image untainted, but we can only be ignored for so long. Because eventually, whether they want to admit it or not, all of their black and white will bleed together anyway.

~ J.m. Darhower

Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of his malice. But the only measure that he knows is desire, desire for power; and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it, that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this, we shall put him out of reckoning.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

You know,” Naomi said, “if you’re looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem solving itself, that may be more evidence that you’re on wrong side.

~ James S.a. Corey

That's who I am, a man who has been both good and evil throughout his life. pg 14

~ Paulo Coelho

I lost the most precious thing a man can have: my faith in my fellow man. I laughed and I wept at God's irony, at the absurd way he had chosen to demonstrate to me that I was an instrument of Good and Evil.

~ Paulo Coelho

You're not trying to find the answer to a question, you're simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe: that everyone is evil.

~ Paulo Coelho

...she was betting on the fact that people were basically good, despite all the Evil in the world.

~ Paulo Coelho

I love you as I do all - not at all.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

The thing is, you can't ever really know how rotten someone will turn out to be.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity.

~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

May you fear no evil. ...And may evil fear you.

~ N.d. Wilson

There was something strange in my sensations, indescribably new and incredibly sweet. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be tenfold more wicked and the thought delighted me like wine.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I used to think this was all about good and evil,” said Rickett, “but it’s not.”“No?”“There’s a kind of evil that isn’t even in opposition to good, because good is an irrelevance to it. It’s a foulness that’s right at the heart of existence, born with the stuff of the universe. It’s in the decay to which all things tend. It is, and it always will be, but in dying we leave it behind.”“And while we’re alive?”“We set our souls against it, and our saints and angels, too.” He patted Parker on the shoulder. “Especially the destroying ones.

~ John Connolly

Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore.

~ Gregory Maguire

So, your god is the only god? Okay, but then, so is my dog.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

The sooner the jihadis go up to their imagined #heaven, the sooner our earth would be a heaven.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Never think taking a life is easy. Do that and in a way they win.

~ Raymond E. Feist

Having 'holy' thoughts, and doing bad deeds, such a lot are assholes indeed.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

I love all life as my own. Therefore, I say, you're my very own. But am I, an infidel who does not believe in your ism, also your own?

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Right or wrong is nonexistent in the eye of the universe. It doesn't matter who is right or who is wrong because the universe never cares for both. The universe lets both happen and the universe lets both end. A natural disaster claims all lives. Life and resources is the one that matters. No matter who you are or what you are, you must never harm life and you must never spend resources. These are what matters. I don't know about the afterlife. I don't know whether the afterlife exists, but in this existence, these are what matters.

~ Andreas Laurencius

You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good.

~ Anthony Burgess

The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

~ Anthony Burgess

Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

~ Ellen Hopkins

I, on the other hand, am very concerned about how word choice will affect my readers. For instance, in the description of Genesis, I chose the term 'good and evil' instead of 'right and wrong', which are basically two same terms. I wanted to use 'right and wrong' because it definitely will ignite more controversies than 'good and evil', but I chose to use the latter because I was afraid of the social influence that can come from reading my book, and although there is no adult material at all in the book, I could risk getting my book banned.

~ Andreas Laurencius