Top 1200 Good Against Evil Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian - ten thousand times easier than it is to hold out unrepenting against the motives which God presents to the mind, to induce it to forsake its evil thoughts and turn unto Him.

Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Afghans excel at fighting Afghans. This is what Afghans do, even when they are not being invaded by foreign powers. They fight each other, tribe against tribe, brother against brother, half-brother against half-brother, cousin against cousin, uncle against nephew, father against son.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

Though I know that he had something to do with the attack simulation, and with all those deaths, I find it difficult to pair those actions with the man I see in front of me. I wonder if this is how it is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likeable as good men.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

In my home, life was framed as an epic spiritual battle between good and evil.

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

Seek guidance for outer action, but be even more concerned with the desires of the heart, that they be consistent with the character of the Lord Jesus Christ. Never did He call upon men for protection, nor even upon angels, although they were sent to minister to Him. It was His own inner unification with the Father's heart that effected His preservation against all evil that was directed against Him. Even so, your own heart purity determines the extent of your personal preservation.

Turning against the church I also had to turn against a lot of the teachings of people in my family who were very much of the church and caught in it, and every time I turned to find where resides the good in the church, all I saw was the demonic, the Lucifer of the journey.

He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was that evil? And ants? They killed. No, the jungle wasn’t evil. It was indifferent. So, too, was the world. Evil, then, must be the negation of something man had added to the world. Ultimately, it was caring about something that made the world liable to evil. Caring. And then the caring gets torn asunder. Everybody dies, but not everybody cares.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity, or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and wander through life on the basis of sentiment and clichés.

Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.

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

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.