Memorable Quotes About Good And Evil

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"In every man's heart there lies a secretly raging war between good and evil."
H.G. Wells
"The struggle between good and evil is the central theme of all great stories."
David Foster Wallace
"Evil is not a thing; it is a choice."
Brandon Sanderson
"Good and evil are an illusion of the ego."
Buddha
"There is no good and evil; there is only power and those too weak to seek it."
J.K. Rowling
"Good is not always the same as being nice; evil is not always the same as being rude."
Greta Christina
"Between good and evil lies a shadow."
Khalil Gibran
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"Every man is a mixture of good and evil."
Laozi
"Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he has; indeed he is deserving of none of it—but the world is what it is, and that’s often very good."
Michael Ende
"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
William Shakespeare
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
Plato
"We are all, in the end, our own demons."
James S.A. Corey
"To be good, you must be willing to be judged, and to be evil, one must accept it."
Terry Goodkind
"The line between good and evil does not lie between nations or states, but within the hearts of men."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Evil is relative; it is experienced differently by each individual."
Miriam Toews
"Goodness is about character—integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people."
Dennis Prager
"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint."
Albert Schweitzer
"Every villain is a hero in his own mind."
Tom Hiddleston
"We are all capable of the most despicable evil acts, yet we are also capable of great and beautiful love."
Brené Brown
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"If we let our fears of death and the godless abyss dictate our lives, the monsters will take over."
David Foster Wallace
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"Goodness cannot be taken from someone without giving back something of equal value."
David Adams Richards
"The duality of good and evil is reflected in our own human nature."
Cao Xueqin
"The line between good and evil is drawn by personal choice."
M. Scott Peck
"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance."
C.S. Lewis
"You cannot enjoy the luxury of forgetting the past without being haunted by its ghosts."
Diane Frolov
"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces."
J.R.R. Tolkien
"In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
"It is not power that corrupts but falsehood. Falsehood is a thing that corrupts and absolute falsehood corrupts absolutely."
George Bernard Shaw
"Evil is done by the better people of the world."
Albert Camus
"Those who see the world as a battleground of good versus evil will find themselves in endless conflict."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Men are not wolves, they are dogs; their nature is good, but they can be trained for evil."
Frederick Douglass
"What you see as good and evil is often shaped by your own perspective and experiences."
Viktor E. Frankl
"Evil is not the opposite of good. It is the absence of good."
Plato
"Goodness is a thing that cannot be rushed, and what is most precious is often hard-won and needs time to flourish."
Marilynne Robinson
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"The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Evil lies in the hearts of men, not in the world outside."
Hannah Arendt
"Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity."
Mikhail Bakhtin
"There cannot be a world without good and evil. That is the essence of a moral world."
Søren Kierkegaard
"With great power comes great responsibility."
Stan Lee
"Good can exist only in the presence of evil; otherwise, it is simply a force that cannot be defined."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"To be a good man is not merely a compliment to a person, but a necessity in society."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The line between good and evil is drawn by our choices."
Joe D. McGowan
"Good and evil are both sides of the same coin."
Paul Klee
"Evil is a thing that leads you away from yourself."
David Foster Wallace
"There is no good or evil; there is only power, and those too weak to seek it."
J.K. Rowling
"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."
Alex Haley
"Good and evil cannot be separated, for they exist together."
C.S. Lewis
"Good can imagine evil, but evil cannot imagine good."
W. H. Auden
"Evil isn't a force, it's a lack of something good."
Anonymous
"To deny the evil in one's own nature is to miss the mark."
C.G. Jung
"Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people."
Dennis Prager
"Evil is a human trait; we all have the capacity for it, just as we have the capacity for good."
Margaret Atwood
"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
Friedrich Engels
"Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Evil can never be good. Yet good can come out of evil."
Jean Genet
"There's a fine line between good and evil, and we often stumble on it."
Anonymous
"You cannot have good without evil; you cannot have light without darkness."
Unknown
"The essence of good is not to do good, but to be good."
Jacques Maritain
"Good is an action, not an abstraction."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"What was once thought to be evil is now thought of as good."
Ernest Gellner
"Goodness is vibrant; evil is stagnant."
Anonymous
"Evil is simply the absence of good."
Augustine of Hippo
"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Anaïs Nin
"Goodness is not the absence of evil, but rather the overflow of kindness."
Rachael O'Meara
"Evil has its charms, but goodness eventually prevails."
Margaret Atwood
"Good is not good when it is in the company of evil."
Aesop
"Evil may be dark, but it cannot drown out the light of a good and just heart."
Anonymous
"The line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"To deny evil is to make it almost invincible."
Viktor Frankl
"Good people do bad things. Bad people do good things. The heart is an immensely complex place."
J.M. Coetzee
"In every area of life, good and evil are always in conflict."
Victor Hugo
"Good cannot dwell with evil."
Anonymous
"It is not enough to be good, one must also be a champion of good."
Angelina Jolie
"The battle between good and evil is always winnable if one holds the right morals."
Randy Alcorn
"Evil is the absence of good."
St. Augustine
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"One is not born a good citizen; one becomes one."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"The very first step to becoming a good person is to realize that goodness is not a destination but a journey."
Viktor Frankl
"Murder is born of love, and love is born of murder."
Albert Camus
"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."
Charles Baudelaire
"To be good is to be in harmony with oneself."
Henry David Thoreau
"The quest for truth, and, therefore, the quest for goodness, is eternal."
Martin Buber
"The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught."
Anonymous
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid."
Ronald Reagan
"It is a sin to be poor. It is a sin to be rich and selfish."
G.K. Chesterton
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
George Bernard Shaw
"One must fight evil with good.', "
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"In every man's heart there lies a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."
Christopher Morley
"There is no good or evil, only power, and those too weak to seek it."
J.K. Rowling
"Good and evil are the two poles of the same reality."
David Eddings
"The distinction between good and evil is the greatest of all distinctions."
W.G. Sebald
"In the end, evil prevails when good men do nothing."
Ronald Reagan
"To choose evil is to choose to lose."
Mahatma Gandhi
"It is the character of the man that will determine the outcome of good and evil."
James Allen
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough."
Frank Crane
"Evil is whatever distracts."
Francois Fenelon
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde
"Evil is a human being's natural state..."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
Aesop
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
Charles Baudelaire
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
Alice Walker
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
Henry David Thoreau
"Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system."
Isaiah Berlin
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Good is not good when one's neighbor is bad."
Bertolt Brecht
"The greatest evils are not the ones we do, but the ones we consent to."
Hannah Arendt
"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
Voltaire
"No one can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."
Tallulah Bankhead
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
Henry David Thoreau
"Evil is a name for a certain class of human actions that are seen as wrong or harmful."
John Stuart Mill
"There is in all of us a hunger for relationships. We have a yearning to know and be known, to love and be loved."
N. T. Wright
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
Elie Wiesel
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