Good And Evil Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.

  Ted Nugent

  War, Believe, Men

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

  Laozi

  Love, Giving Up, People

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• The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
  the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.

  Howard Thurman

  Men, Evil, World

  Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.106, Beacon Press

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• I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Struggle, Angel

  Source: collider.com

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• My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.

  Julie Klassen

  Father, Mistake, Reality

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• In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Evil, Bottom

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.21, North Atlantic Books

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• Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Tolerance, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do.We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Animal, Evil, Needs

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• There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Evil, Ego, Subjects

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophy, Dark, Light

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• One reason for the decline in moral values is that the world has invented a new, constantly changing and undependable standard of moral conduct referred to as "situational ethics." Now, individuals define good and evil as being adjustable according to each situation; this is in direct contrast to the proclaimed God-given absolute standard: "Thou shalt not!"-as in "Thou shalt not steal".

  David B. Haight

  Evil, World, Absolutism

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• People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.

  Mario Van Peebles

  Reality, Axes, People

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection, and in this fashion learns to know oneself, the world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.

  Adolph Guggenbuhl-Craig

  Love, Fashion, Evil

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