Top 1200 Good Over Evil Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.

good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.

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?'

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.

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

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

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

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.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

The greatest weapon we have against evil is doing good in Jesus' name.

He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

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

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

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

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

I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

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

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

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

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

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

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

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

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

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

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

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

Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

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

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I know that the work is good and they're excited over at ABC and Disney and it's getting some really good feedback. It's not just a little, insignificant kind of role. It's meaty, which is 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.

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

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

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