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• Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Helping Others, Evil, Choices

  "Touched with fire" by Angela Lambert, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2002.

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• The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.

  Laozi

  Evil, Giving, Saint

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• Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Differences, Evil, Denial

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• The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Evil, Ready, Acknowledge

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• Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

  Robert Jordan

  Two Sides, Evil, Fiction

  "Robert Jordan chats about his 'Wheel of Time' series". Live chat, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2000.

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• The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

  William A. Dembski

  Atheist, Reality, Views

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• Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.

  David Gemmell

  Simple, Views, Evil

  "No shades of grey" by David Gemmell, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

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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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• There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

  Joe Mantegna

  Evil, Cop, Robbers

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• Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Evil, Looks

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• Good and evil lay side by side.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Philosophy, Evil, Sides

  Song: HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO ELECTRIC LADYLAND, Album: Electric Ladyland

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• I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.

  Don Henley

  Fun, Philosophy, Evil

  Song: The Garden of Allah

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• Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

  John Ortberg

  Art, Jesus, Hate

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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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• 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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• 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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• Do this and you will be an apostle, a fulfiller of what the Lord chose you for, an accomplisher of your calling as messenger. When at first you succeed in all this, then perhaps the Lord will appoint you as a special ambassador-to save others after you have saved yourself; and to help those who are tempted, after you yourself pass through all temptations, and through all experiences in good and evil.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Humility, Evil, Temptation

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• In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.

  Frederick Lenz

  Evil, Innocence

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• To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Pain, Writing

  "From the Sixties—I" by John Cheever, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 1991.

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• Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.

  Al-Ghazali

  Errors, Evil, Quran

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• Consider that we live in a world predicated upon fear. The underlying assumption is that human beings are innately evil and must be groomed and controlled. That is the dichotomy that is set up within the human mind, good and evil.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Evil, Humanity

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• Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Thinking, People

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Struggle, Hero

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• And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

  Aristotle

  Men, Evil, Unjust

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.16, Aristotle

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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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