Top 1200 Good Over Evil Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

I'm not particularly good at doodling. I'll doodle the same face over and over again.

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

According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have been blessed with a small key to the world of the young. It's a place where good and evil are clearly stamped. It's a place where the better part of human nature triumphs over tragedies, and where innocence rides high. It is a great pleasure to write there, because the young have what the rest of us only envy, and that is a belief in goodness and perpetual hope.

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.

Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing in its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.

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

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

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

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

Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.

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

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

I'm not good at doing the same thing over and over again.

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As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.

A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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

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

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

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.

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

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

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

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

If you keep doing something over and over, you should get good at it.

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

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

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

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

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

Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.

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.

That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

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

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

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

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

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

...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.

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

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

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

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

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

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

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

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.

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