Good And Evil Quotes - Page 18

• When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Running, Country, Loss

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• The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fighting, Winning, Evil

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• The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Biblical, Discovery

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• A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between good and evil that has preoccupied us ever since we gave up swinging from trees.

  Margaret Halsey

  Struggle, Fighting, Men

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Evil

  Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”

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• The sick-room becomes the scene of intense convictions; and among these, none, it seems to me, is more distinct and powerful than that of the permanent nature of good, and the transient nature of evil.

  Harriet Martineau

  Powerful, Sick, Evil

  Harriet Martineau (1845). “Life in the Sick-room: Essays”, p.17

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• Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.

  Barbara Cartland

  Believe, People, Evil

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• As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends; the line between good and evil is murky indeed; and nothing goes quite as we expect. With eye-popping plot twists and rollicking good action, Half a King is definitely a full adventure.

  Rick Riordan

  Kings, Book, Adventure

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• The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

  Jane Roberts

  Evil, Criminals, Detectives

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.427, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Eye, Light

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• good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Evil, Vulnerability

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• The blood of our Christian brothers and sisters is a testimony which cries out to be heard by everyone who can still distinguish between good and evil.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Brother, Blood

  "Pope Francis condemns Isis killings of Ethiopian Christians". www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2015.

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• Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Evil, Hanging Out

  Source: inters.org

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• The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even that things in themselves, and he begins to ask: What am I? What is the task of man in this wonderful universe? Do we merely live here for ourselves, or is there something more for us to do? Why do we struggle and fight? What is good and evil? Where will it all end?

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Struggle, Fighting

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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• The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Hero, Evil

  Interview with The A.V. Club, film.avclub.com. September 20, 2007.

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• Happiness and suffering support each other. To be is to inter-be. It's like the left and the right. If the left is not there, the right cannot be there. The same is true with suffering and happiness, good and evil.

  Nhat Hanh

  Evil, Support, Suffering

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• We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.

  Desmond Tutu

  Evil, Aberration

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• If Christ would have left Christian ethics codified on the table, then he wouldn't produce moral beings choosing between good and evil, but conformists fulfilling orders. I think the same can be said about the Bible.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Christian, Thinking, Order

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

  William Friedkin

  Evil, Lines, Film

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors a reach, into countries and societies, for both good and evil, that we have never seen before. So it isn't a matter of just state versus state challenges or conflict. The bigger problem is nonstate actors.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, Technology, Evil

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• In the forest of primeval
  A school for Good and Evil
  Twin towers like two heads
  One for the pure
  And one for the wicked
  Try to escape you'll always fail,
  The only way out is
  Through a fairytale.

  Soman Chainani

  School, Two, Evil

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• The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us

  Pope Francis

  Evil, Borders

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• If the majority is moral then why do they need to be ruled by a group of people who are power hungry and gun hungry and probably not quite so good? And evil people want two things: they want something for nothing, and to escape the consequences of their actions, which is pretty much the definition of what government is.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Gun, Government, Evil People

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• An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Evil, Circumstances

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• Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral absolutism and relativism... These are the basic problems of human existence, and as far as we possibly can we arrange things to forget them.

  Frank Barron

  Art, Philosophy, Moral Absolutism

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