Good And Evil Quotes - Page 19

• We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Country, Believe

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• I heard about Bhagavad Gita very early in my childhood, from the age of five onwards. It was one of the earliest things I started to read when I started to read. And it was very much a part of my consciousness. In the beginning, I saw the "Bhagavad Gita" as a text that was very classical, much like the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" - a mythical saga that showed the eternal conflict between good and evil. But much later, as I grew up, I realized that it was much more than that.

  Deepak Chopra

  Evil, Childhood, Age

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We reject President Donald Trump's view. It was a mistake to say that 'the Islamic world divided into "good" and "evil"', a major wrongdoing.

  Khaled Mashal

  Mistake, Islamic, Evil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.

  Nelly Furtado

  Believe, Thinking, Evil

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Evil, Language

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.38, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.

  John Locke

  Karma, Men, Evil

  John Locke (1813). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.250

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• A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never good but through necessity: on the contrary, when good and evil are left to their choice, they will not fail to throw every thing into disorder and confusion. Hunger and poverty may make men industrious, but laws only can make them good; for, if men were so of themselves, there would be no occasion for laws; but, as the case is far otherwise, they are absolutely necessary.

  John Adams

  Men, Law, Hunger And Poverty

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.304, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.

  Steve Allen

  Evil, Religion, Criticism

  Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”

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• What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?

  Sam Harris

  Our World, Evil, Worry

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Struggle, Eye

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• Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Fire, Light, Evil

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• The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Evil, Lines

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• I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?

  Francis Collins

  Mean, Thinking, Evil

  "N.I.H. Director Francis Collins On Agency Goals". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 11, 2009.

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• 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.

  E. O. Wilson

  Race, Two, Evil

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• What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.

  William J. Mitchell

  Evil, Historical, Needs

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• The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise.

  Dion Fortune

  Lying, Rights, Opposites

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• This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches in his company that flavour of final purposelessness, inner responsibility, existence outside or away from our Saxon good and evil, mixed with cunning, remorselessness, love of power.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Responsibility, Evil, Age

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• Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Giving Up, Pie

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.29, editionNEXT.com

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• In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its own particular argument in his favor. For if man is such a mixture, then the best societal framework is surely one in which evil is discouraged and the good encouraged. The libertarian maintains that the existence of the State apparatus provides a ready, swift channel for the exercise of evil, since the rulers of the State are thereby legitimated and can wield compulsion in ways that no one else is permitted to do.

  Murray Rothbard

  Exercise, Men, Evil

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• Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

  Maureen Dowd

  Cowboy, Evil, Redskins

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• What millions died that Caesar might be great!

  Thomas Campbell

  Might, Died, Millions

  'Pleasures of Hope' (1799) pt. 2, l. 174

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• Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Evil, Wicked, Lines

  "Collider Watches 15 Minutes of DESPICABLE ME (Video Blog Recap) Plus Interview With Producer Chris Meledandri". Group interview, collider.com. February 10, 2010.

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• With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, People, Evil

  "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles, 2000.

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• Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Evil, Purpose, Communism

  Margaret Thatcher (1987). “In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986”

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• Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fighting, Errors, Evil

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1995). “Philosophical Writings: Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.229, A&C Black

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