Good And Evil Quotes

There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views.

~ Peter J. Tomasi

Some people would say- you're only a drop, your word-breaking is only a drop, it wouldn't matter. But all the evil in the world's made up of little drops. It's silly talking about the unimportance of the little drops. The little drops and the ocean are the same thing.

~ John Fowles

Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are.

~ Judith Flanders

Well -- think about this. What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, make no difference to God? What if the pattern is pre-set? No no -- hang on -- this is a question worth struggling with. What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?

~ Donna Tartt

Not only does evil depend upon good, but in this case, darkness depends upon light.

~ Jonathan L. Walls

...in the Twilight Princess worldview, darkness is not necessarily correlated with evil, just as light is not necessarily correlated with good.

~ Jonathan L. Walls

I believe that there is good in everyone, even an evil pirate such as you.

~ Carmela Dutra

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

~ Ann Leckie

Happiness is a fortress.

~ Fuminori Nakamura

I have known many survivors for whom the holocaust is the central them of their lives. They have no other. I have tried to live with tolerance and forgiveness as the theme of my life. God have us the power to be good or evil. This is our choice. Because some pick evil, we must work together to recognize and stop it. But while we survivors may lead the change, we cannot do this alone. It must be the goal of all people. If we will join in this goal, then there is hope for humanity.

~ Andrea Warren

If good men pretend to be villains, how is anybody supposed to know the difference between them?

~ Sarah Rees Brennan

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold. For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

~ Anonymous

He had memorized the entire Qur'an and lectured on the nature of evil, which, like a shadow, cannot exist independently of the good silhouettes.

~ Anthony Marra

If the universe is trying to maintain balance, we must aid this by ensuring that Good is not enjoyed excessively. Or else the universe will re-balance itself by creating Evil to counteract Good. That is the purpose of Evil: it balances the Good.

~ Amish Tripathi

When faced with pain and evil, we have to make a choice.We can choose to be taken by the evil.Or we can try to embrace the good.

~ Elizabeth Smart

Light and dark ain't supposed to mix. They're like broccoli and chocolate - just nasty when you put them together - but that appears to be what's happening with you

~ H.m. Ward

Whether a character is good or evil depends on your perspective.

~ Steve Jones Snr

...or perhaps about acknowledging that life is a delicate balance of great forces, and that good would lose its potency if there was no evil left to fight in the world.

~ Anne Fortier

Nature is not kind, it is not good. Do you really think nature cares about any individual living thing?

~ Sara Zaske

Goodness will always win over evil, no matter how much the evil attempts to break you. More than that, you are never truly in darkness. Sometimes, all you need to do is turn on the light.

~ Melyssa Winchester

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

~ August Strindberg

Beware when wrong-doing is called good and right-doing is called evil.

~ R. Alan Woods

A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.

~ Rikki Ducornet

Good and evil has no passport; it speaks in different tongues, wears many skins, and exists everywhere, even in the same person

~ A.h. Amin

Hope starts as a promise made to yourself, the first drop of rain in a parched land, the first step onto dry earth for a shipwreck survivor. It is a listening crowd for a lonely heart.What we hope in must be greater than us; therefore, we will always need something greater than man to believe in. Good and evil may be a necessity to perceive our world, but hope is a prerequisite for life.

~ Christopher Hawke

There is more goodness than evil in the world, but you know, you still got to work at it.

~ Lasky Kathryn

On the one hand, if God is wiser than we His judgement must differ from ours on many things, and not least on good and evil. What seems to us good may therefore not be good in His eyes, and what seems to us evil may not be evil.

~ C.s. Lewis

You see we do, yet see you but our handsAnd this the bleeding business they have done:Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful

~ William Shakespeare

I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.

~ Ruth St. Denis

The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.

~ Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

Whoever hurt you had a choice to hurt you or love you. It was his choice whoever he is, not yours. It is the same as how Hank made the choice to beat on me and Mom instead of loving us the way he should have. As you told me, that was not my fault either. I believe it is the option of choice that makes evil possible. When he made his choice, you really had no choice.” [said Craig]

~ Sarah Richards

Good to evil seems evil

~ Ray Bradbury

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

~ Jim Butcher

And those characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity. That too is a great advantage of the folk tale. It is not a failure of imagination to see the sky blue. It is a failure rather to be weary of its being blue- and not to notice how blue it is. And appreciation of the subtler colors of the sky will come later. In the folk tale, good is good and evil is evil, and the former will triumph and later will fail. This is not the result of the imaginative quest. It is rather its principle and foundation. It is what will enable the child later on to understand Macbeth, or Don Quixote, or David Copperfield.

~ Anthony M. Esolen

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.

~ Eric Ambler

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

~ Don Delillo

As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

~ Henry David Thoreau