Top 1200 Good Vs Evil Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

[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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access.

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.

I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.

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

We pay Karma not only for the evil we do but also for the good left undone, being able to do it.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

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

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

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.