Top 1200 Good Over Evil Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

As no good is done, or spoken, or thought by any man without the assistance of God, working in and with those that believe in him, so there is no evil done, or spoken, or thought without the assistance of the devil, who worketh with strong though secret power in the children of unbelief. All the works of our evil nature are the work of the devil.

I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over?

In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.

Find good in what the world says is evil.

Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is maintained. But it is true that we are daily producing more evil and, with it, an ocean of suffering for millions that is absolutely avoidable. When one day the ignorance arising from childhood repression is eliminated and humanity has awakened, an end can be put to this production of evil.

They are inherently good - the bad reactions aren't basic. Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than evil - but circumstances and associates can step up the bad and reduce the good. I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

I hate cellphones. They are not for good, they're for evil. They're for gossip.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

There has always been a battle between good and evil.

If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon

Evil to some is always good to others

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people are oppressive and bigoted. And yet there is a Good that will triumph over Evil in the end. From a Christian perspective the problem with both kinds of stories is that they tend to blame problems on things besides sin and identify salvation in things besides God — and therefore are ultimately too simplistic.

We desperately need to understand something of the magnitude of sin, of evil, and of gross wickedness in this world if we are to appreciate our redemption. God's love, grace, and mercy shine all the brighter against the awful reality of evil. Indeed, the very existence of evil is a powerful proof of God's existence and holiness.

Being good or evil has nothing to do with religion.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.

It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.

Power is neither good nor evil.

When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.

Marketing is neither good nor evil.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as great presumption to send our passions upon God's errands, as to palliate them with God's name... We are too ready to retailiate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us try then what Love will do: for if men did once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.

Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is evil? Can the heart become misshapen and afflicted with ugly, incurable deformities under disproportionate misfortune, like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof?

Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.