Good And Evil Quotes - Page 13

• Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.

  Ted Dekker

  Mirrors, Dangerous World, Issues

  Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. April 20, 2009.

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• The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

  Samuel Butler

  Art, Evil, Interesting

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.197, The Floating Press

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• For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Clouds, Evil, Shadow

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• The battle against good and evil is raging now! Look at your television programming and movie advertisements presenting the occult…the demonic…the satanic…the practice of witchcraft and sorcery in popular books…the open hostility toward Christianity and the revival of anti-Semitism. The fight is on for the hearts and minds of our children in ours homes, our schools, our universities, and our society.

  John Hagee

  Children, Book, Home

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• I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.

  Alva Myrdal

  Jesus, Struggle, Evil

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.

  Jerry Garcia

  Evil, Consciousness, What Is Life

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• It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

  Martin Buber

  Thinking, Opposites, Two

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• You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. For those who limp go not backwards. But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Strong, Kindness, Evil

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.

  Philip Pullman

  Hurt, Believe, Simple

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Thinking, Evil, Humans

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• You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hero, Believe, Black And White

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.185, Dell

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• What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories that restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn't have any way to control.

  Richelle Mead

  Stupid, People, Evil

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.453, Zebra Books

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• The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God (which, we must note, was addressed specifically to perennial problems in political morality), then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) — the standard of self-law or autonomy.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  Men, Self, Expression

  "By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today".

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• Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Good Life, Hate, Real

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.445, OUP Oxford

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• There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the forms of religion, and evil has as little to do with so much behavior condemned by religion. Both good and evil vie for the passions of the heart. For love!

  Ted Dekker

  Heart, Passion, Evil

  FaceBook post by Ted Dekker from Aug 03, 2015

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• I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

  Glen Cook

  Believe, Men, Evil

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.368, Macmillan

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• We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

  John Steinbeck

  Evil, Stories, Novel

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.325, Penguin

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• The FUTURE of this world has long been DECLARED; the final outcome between GOOD and evil is already KNOWN. There is absolutely no question as to who WINS because the VICTORY has already been posted on the SCOREBOARD. The only really strange thing is all of this is that we are still down here on the FIELD trying to decide which TEAM’S JERSEY we want to wear!

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Team, Winning, Long

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• And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Knowing, Evil, Tree

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• And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

  Khalil Gibran

  Cities, Evil, Way

  Khalil Gibran, “Good And Evil XXII”

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• On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.

  Philip K. Dick

  Other Worlds, Evil, Different

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.260, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

  Jim Butcher

  Evil, Doe, Distinction

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: The Dresden Files, Book Thirteen”, p.317, Hachette UK

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• That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Games, Play

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

  Rob Lowe

  Dark, Evil, Sides

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Excellence, Literature

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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