Top 1200 Good Over Evil Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

I try to ignore the Internet. It's an evil, evil place.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

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

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

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

It has passed over mountain ranges and The waters of the seven seas. It has shown upon laborers in the fields, Into the windows of homes, And shops, and factories. It has beheld cities with gleaming towers, And also the hovels of the poor. It has been witness to both good and evil, The works of honest men and women and The conspiracy of knaves. It has seen marching armies, bomb-blasted villages And "the destruction that wasteth at noonday." Now, unsullied from its tireless journey, It comes to us, Messenger of the morning. Harbinger of a new day.

To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.

Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion.

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

If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.

Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

When [Bill Clinton] was running for president. I'll never forget this one. He was running in New Hampshire. He was not doing well. And he suddenly, over a weekend, rushed back to Little Rock to execute a guy who had killed a cop, but in the process, the policeman had shot him in the head and he was out of it. He didn't know today from tomorrow, good, evil, whatever. His lawyer begged - his lawyer was an old friend of Clinton.

A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.

I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.

The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

The war of good and evil present in all religions does not always end, in every faith, with the victory of good, but in every one it establishes a clear order of existence. The sacred as well as the profane rests on that universal order.

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

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

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

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

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

Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.

Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.

When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.

Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.

We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ’s death and resurrection.

If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

It makes it easier to play evil and to act evil to people that you really like. You have a feeling about them, so you know what the opposite is.

A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.

As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things.

Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!

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

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

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

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him kindly, speak to him gently, lovingly. And if there is not deeply-rooted malice against us within him, but only a temporary fit of anger, you will see how his heart, or his malice, will melt away through your kindness and love - how good will conquer evil. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.

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

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.