Good And Evil Quotes - Page 16

• What True Blood does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

  Robert Kazinsky

  Blood, Two, Evil

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• There are two angels that attend unseen
  Each one of us, and in great books record
  Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down
  The good ones, after every action closes
  His volume, and ascends with it to God.
  The other keeps his dreadful day-book open
  Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing,
  The record of the action fades away,
  And leaves a line of white across the page.
  Now if my act be good, as I believe it,
  It cannot be recalled. It is already
  Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished.
  The rest is yours.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Believe, Sunset

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1856). “Poetical Works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Illustrated with Upwards of One Hundred and Sixty Engravings on Wood, from Designs by Jane E. Benham, Birket Foster, Etc”, p.388

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• Clearly, one primary purpose of our existence upon the earth is to obtain a body of flesh and bones. We have also been given the gift of agency. In a thousand ways we are privileged to choose for ourselves. Here we learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that there are consequences attached to our actions.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Sweet, Agency, Evil

  "The Race of Life". Thomas S. Monson’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2012.

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• What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Age, Reverberation

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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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• the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.

  Rebecca West

  Pain, Evil, Giving

  Rebecca West (2010). “A Train of Powder”, p.62, Open Road Media

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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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• as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

  Margaret Deland

  Evil, Goodness, Badness

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.

  Hannah More

  Character, Opposites, Numbers

  Hannah More (1854). “The Works of Hannah More: Structures on modern system of female education”, p.7

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• we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Government, Evil, Expectations

  Katherine Anne Porter, Darlene Harbour Unrue (2008). “Collected stories and other writings”

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• I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their shadow - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

  John Bradshaw

  Evil, Broken, Shadow

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• What's devil to some is good to some others.

  Elizabeth Madox Roberts

  Evil, Devil

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• Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Army, Men

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• Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, War, Thinking

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• Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Passion, Europe

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• There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

  Amelia Barr

  Evil, Wickedness, May

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.36, Litres

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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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• Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

  Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

  Pain, Evil, Pleasure

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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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• 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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• In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.

  Ida Tarbell

  Men, Law, Evil

  Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.21, Ravenio Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Character, Thinking, People

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