Top 1200 Good Over Evil Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

I'd probably end up doing the same thing over and over. We're creatures of habit. We know what we know. With collaboration...and I'm not just talking about music, I'm talking about in life - if you're a good listener and you have your ears open, and to be a good collaborator you have to be able to listen, you can learn something from somebody else.

The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity, or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil.

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was that evil? And ants? They killed. No, the jungle wasn’t evil. It was indifferent. So, too, was the world. Evil, then, must be the negation of something man had added to the world. Ultimately, it was caring about something that made the world liable to evil. Caring. And then the caring gets torn asunder. Everybody dies, but not everybody cares.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

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

The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.

We, in America and Great Britain, have never had to live with evil and ignore it, or pretend it wasn't happening, as people did all over Europe, and indeed, even in Germany herself.

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience.

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

Though I know that he had something to do with the attack simulation, and with all those deaths, I find it difficult to pair those actions with the man I see in front of me. I wonder if this is how it is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likeable as good men.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Plus, humor ws a good way to hide the pain. And if that didn't work, there was always Plan B. Run aaway. Over and over.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again.

The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

In my home, life was framed as an epic spiritual battle between good and evil.

American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and wander through life on the basis of sentiment and clichés.

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up.