Good And Evil Quotes - Page 14

• We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Thinking, Evil, Faults

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty wings and lift him high.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Strong, Wings, Two

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different: And diverse men differ not only in their judgment, on the senses of what is pleasant and unpleasant to the taste, smell, hearing, touch, and sight, but also of what is conformable, or disagreeable to Reason, in the actions of the common life. Nay, the same man, in diverse times, differs from himself, and one time praiseth, that is, calleth Good, what another time he dispraiseth, and calleth Evil.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Sight, Names

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• Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of Good and Evill. For a man's Conscience and his Judgement are the same thing, and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Judging, Leviathan

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.210, 谷月社

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• The last six years afforded me much time and food for thought. I came to the conclusion that the human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Race, Years, Two

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women in Beijing, China, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. August 31, 1995.

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• The discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Beautiful, Lying, Men

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• Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Christian, America, Evil

  Samuel P. Huntington (2004). “Who are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

  Dennis Prager

  Men, Essence, Life And Death

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• Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

  Dennis Prager

  Class, Evil, Poverty

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• The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Evil, Lines

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

  Ralph Steadman

  Games, Differences, Evil

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• I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Thinking, News Stories

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• If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

  Salman Rushdie

  Order, Ideas, People

  "Terror Is Glamour". "Spiegel" Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• Things that live by night live outside the realm of 'normal' time and so suggest living outside the realm of good and evil, since we have moralistic feelings about time. Chauvinistic about our human need to wake by day and sleep by night, we come to associate night dwellers with people up to no good at a time when they have the jump on the rest of us and are defying nature, defying their circadian rhythms.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sleep, Night, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.40, Vintage

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• Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Want, Goodness

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.144, Penguin

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• People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Real, Lying, People

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• What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

  Tom Robbins

  Evil, Mind, Trying

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• Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a single conquest without the aid of both. Indeed how can she? What adds to moral strength, but a grappling with temptation?

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Hands, Evil, Temptation

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• As the world grapples with more efficient ways of managing time, it lures us into more and more earthly pursuits. But life is not a struggle with time - it is a struggle between good and evil.

  Keith B. McMullin

  Struggle, Evil, World

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• Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

  Euripides

  Kings, Cities, Evil

  "Bellerophon". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 425 BCE.

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• The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes the customary division of good and evil along national lines, but he escapes any sense of moral accountability as well. In a Tarantino war, everyone commits atrocities. Like all the director's work after 'Jackie Brown,' the movie is pure sensation. It's disconnected from feeling, and an eerie blankness--it's too shallow to be called nihilism--undermines even the best scenes.

  David Denby

  War, Eerie, Evil

  David Denby (2013). “Do the Movies Have a Future?”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Thinking, Hands, Feet

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• ... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

  Amelia Barr

  Evil, Mystery, Enough

  Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.116, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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