Top 1200 Good Against Evil Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Even an evil man can have principles?he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

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

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil.

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.

Evil news fly faster still than good.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil.

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor.

When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.

There are many good players in England who are very good in the air. When you're up against Nemanja Vidic or Vincent Kompany, it's a real challenge.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil.

You can put whatever you want inside evil and good in morality.

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.

In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.

All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

What it is coming down to is who runs the country. It's us against them. It's the good guys versus the bad guys. It's the God-fearing people against the pagans, and some of the pagans are going to church.

Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.

The great lesson of our time is that evil still exists, and when evil is on the march, it must be confronted.

People are not born evil, although we all have evil within us.

What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.

I tell you one you straight off in Scotland - Nick de Luca. I don't see his name quoted, but I've played against Nick quite a lot and he is a good player - one of the trickiest centres I've played against.

And would'st thou evil for his good repay?

I have learned a lot about good and evil - they are not always what they appear to be.

No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.

Better good afarre off, then evill at hand. [Better good afar than evil at hand.]

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.

Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

God has plans for you and His plans are for good because God Himself is good. He can neither think nor do evil.

Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

...we should never judge anyone; a 'wicked' action which we may see as 'evil', may be necessary for the greater good. Where would the story of Christ be without Judas? His actions were ultimately good; a part of the plan.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.