Top 1200 Good Against Evil Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Human beings are capable of great good, but also of the basest evil.

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

I'm a religious, spiritual person, but if there is good in the world, there must be evil, too.

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?'

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.

Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.

All stories boil down to good vs. evil, and that's what the archetypal American Western was.

People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

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

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.

O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.

It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

He balled up my discarded sweatshirt and put it against his shoulder. “Go on,” he said. “I don’t bite.” “And from what I hear, that’s a good thing.” He gave a rumbling chuckle. “Yeah, it is.” I leaned against his shoulder.

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.