Good And Evil Quotes - Page 20

• How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

  William Cowper

  Eden, Evil, Tree

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• There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Regret, Tired, Thinking

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• You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Change, Evil, Decision

  A Wizard of Earthsea ch. 3 (1968)

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• I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one story, over and over. Like most children, they believe in an easily identifiable good and evil, and like most children, they are capable of unthinkable cruelty.

  Michael Cunningham

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.

  Walt Disney

  Drama, Simple, Evil

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• If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Evil, Giving, Liberty

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• Power always brings with it responsibility.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Responsibility, Evil

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The New Nationalism”, Best Books on

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• I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Crazy, Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible.

  Fanny Kemble

  Character, Evil, Soul

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• New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.

  Jeff Goodell

  New York, Fighting, Cities

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• Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions.

  Imagawa Sadayo

  Men, Evil, Water

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• Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And since these problems have a universal significance, the sphere of ethics is wider than is generally supposed. It deals with meaning and value and its province is the world in which the distinction between good and evil is drawn, evaluations are made and meaning is sought.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Philosophy, Evil, World

  "The Destiny of Man". Book by Nikolai Berdyaev, 1931.

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• I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Evil, Justified, Enough

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Back to Methuselah”, p.546, The Floating Press

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• The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.

  James Anthony Froude

  War, Heart, Evil

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.13

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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