Good And Evil Quotes - Page 23

• Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

  Abraham Lincoln

  Two, Government, Evil

  Abraham Lincoln's Speech in the House of Representatives, June 20, 1848.

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• We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.

  Joseph Addison

  Successful, Men, Evil

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.5878, Delphi Classics

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• To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation.

  Norman Cousins

  Men, Essence, Optimism

  Norman Cousins (1953). “Who Speaks for Man?”, New York : Macmillan

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• In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and not by their mediocrity, nor by their being commended. For several men praise several customs, and, contrarily, what one calls vice, another calls virtue, as their present affections lead them.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Evil, Vices

  Thomas Hobbes (2014). “Behemoth or The Long Parliament”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man's yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!

  Flora Tristan

  Men, Rights, Law

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• There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life, things aren't black or white, but rather there's a lot of coping and really tough decision making.

  Laura San Giacomo

  White, People, Evil

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Father, Evil

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• This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Redemption, Morality

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• If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Law, Tyrants, Evil

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• The problem of good and evil is not the problem of good and evil, but only the problem of evil. In opposition to good there are evil characters, but there are no good characters in opposition to evil. Evil is arguable, but good is not. Therefore the Devil always wins the argument.

  Laura Riding

  Character, Winning, Evil

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• Satan is attacking the great institutions of America. This is a spiritual war. I believe in good and evil.

  Rick Santorum

  Spiritual, War, Believe

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• To put it simply, when you assert that there is such a thing as evil, you must assume there is such a thing as good. When you say there is such a thing as good, you must assume there is a moral law by which to distinguish between good and evil.

  Frank Turek

  Law, Evil, Moral

  Frank Turek (2014). “Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case”, p.11, NavPress

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• All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Spiritual, Believe, People

  AMBER-ALLEN PUBLISHING Interview, www.amberallen.com. June 4, 2013.

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• Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Dark, Evil

  1953 Inaugural address, 20 Jan.

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• Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Evil, Degrees

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Mean, Evil

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• The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Giving, Feelings

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 294

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• Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

  William Hazlitt

  Race, Idols, Evil

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.553

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• While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Evil, World, Patterns

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• I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.

  Eugenio Montale

  Believe, Struggle, Two

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• Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

  Eric Burdon

  Struggle, Winning, Evil

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• I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

  GG Allin

  Believe, Evil, Want

  "GG Allin, The First Amendment, And The Law". Interview with Joe Coughlin, www.grayarea.com. December 1992.

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• Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

  Anthony Collins

  Evil, Judging, Willing

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• I have learned a lot about good and evil - they are not always what they appear to be.

  Charles Van Doren

  Evil, I've Learned, Quiz Show

  "Fictional character: Charles Van Doren". "Quiz Show", 1994.

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• When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

  Ted Dekker

  Struggle, Writing, Evil

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