Good And Evil Quotes - Page 13

• Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hands, Evil, Hand In Hand

  "Marilyn Manson is back. Call an exorcist!" by Neil Spencer, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Evil, Vices

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Evil, Definitions

  Anton Szandor LaVey (1998). “Satan Speaks!”, p.37, Feral House

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• To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.

  Matt Taibbi

  Evil, Betrayed, Hollywood

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• Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Evil, Environment

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• This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Race, Knowing

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

  Lawrence Block

  Evil, Giving, Choices

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• Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart.

  Margot Frank

  Friendship, Change, Heart

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• Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Evil, Faces

  James Branch Cabell (2012). “Jurgen”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have been blessed with a small key to the world of the young. It's a place where good and evil are clearly stamped. It's a place where the better part of human nature triumphs over tragedies, and where innocence rides high. It is a great pleasure to write there, because the young have what the rest of us only envy, and that is a belief in goodness and perpetual hope.

  Rosemary Wells

  Blessed, Writing, Keys

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• Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil.

  Friedrich Kellner

  Evil, Choices, Persons

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• The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good and evil? There is no such thing. There is a little good and a evil, a little black and a little white. Grey is not an attractive colour, but perhaps it is the one that describes the world most accurately.

  Akif Pirincci

  Black And White, Evil, Upset

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• I used to wonder why God used a prop like the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to inflict guilt on Adam&Eve, until I realized it could have been a steak or a plate of fries or a bagel. Anything. Making people feel guilty is a staple of religion and society in general. It works. And if you can transfer guilt from a real criminal to an innocent bystander, you've really got something going. It's a magic stage trick that can make a career.

  Jon Rappoport

  Real, Bystanders, Careers

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• As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be judged by its standards. Standing under a new spiritual law and representing as it were a new kind of reality, they are beyond good and evil'. Strauss's philosopher-prophet is a secularized version of the same conceit.

  Shadia Drury

  Spiritual, Reality, Law

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• There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

  Jenna Jameson

  Light, Evil, Choices

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• Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

  Sidney Howard

  People, Evil, Debate

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• We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

  Tzvetan Todorov

  Struggle, Fighting, Names

  "Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century". Book by Tzvetan Todorov, 2003.

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• . . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings. . . .

  Immanuel Kant

  Believe, Thinking, Law

  Immanuel Kant (2009). “Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life, concerning the bounds of duty, the questions cannot, by any means, be decided with greater certainty, than by ascertaining, on any side, the true interests of mankind. If any false opinion, embraced from appearances, has been found to prevail; as soon as farther experience and sounder reasoning have given us juster notions of human affairs, we retract our first sentiment, and adjust anew the boundaries of moral good and evil.

  David Hume

  Determination, Philosophy, Mean

  David Hume (2010). “Moral and Political Philosophy”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

  Steven Saylor

  Expression, Ideas, Evil

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• Who would talk about the evolutionary mind? Who cares about the good and evil in the evolution of species, and so on? This must be interesting only to the degree to which it informs us in this very present moment regarding our choices that we will make in the creation of our future.

  Ralph Abraham

  Evil, Interesting, Choices

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• As Earth warriors, we choose to be participants in the ancient battle between good and evil. On our side stand the waters and wind, and all things wild and of the Earth. On the other side, consumed with greed and in persuit of power, control and money, stand all the dark forces that lay waste to Her.

  Rod Coronado

  Warrior, Dark, Wind

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• I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

  Philip Pullman

  Life, Believe, Names

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

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• Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may

  John Irving

  Believe, Men, Winning

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• If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Wisdom, Peace, Fun

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973.

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