Top 1200 Good Over Evil Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Videogames tell stories on good and evil, and so does the WWE, so that's the core of both things.

It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.

Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

Evil is like a Vampire. When you take arms against it and destroy it, you find in the end that you are evil too-that it is living on your own actions.

There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

Reducing everything immediately to good and evil is bad history - not only because it isn't true, but because reductionism is unpersuasive; it is boring. Good history, on the other hand, demands that one talk socratically - that one can present alternate viewpoints, not strawman arguments.

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.

Satan is attacking the great institutions of America. This is a spiritual war. I believe in good and evil.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again.

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

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

God made a mistake when he gave to humans, infected as they are with evil, jurisdiction over Earth. He should have given jurisdiction to animals.

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

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.

War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve mastery over your idealism, over your virtue as well as over your vice, aesthetic mastery over everything that drives you to write in the first place - your outrage, your politics, your grief, your love!

I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.

... and we will test you with evil and with good; and unto us shall ye be brought back.

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.

It's see no evil, hear no evil with toxic male gamers - whose every whim and adolescent fantasy has been catered to for decades.

Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

One of the great things about doing a play, repeating it over and over again, is that you can practice. And you can get really quite good at it for a while.

Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.

We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

God is able to cause all things people do to us, even the bad things, to work together for our good (Rom. 8:28). That isn't to say that all things are good, but that God can orchestrate the evil into a symphony of glory.

In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.