Good And Evil Quotes - Page 24

• My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

  Richard Dawkins

  Passion, Evil, Care

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• It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Heart, Years

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• I don't think good and evil are polarized.

  Sam Mendes

  Thinking, Evil, Polarizing

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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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• 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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• God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.

  Alfred Edersheim

  Evil, Earth, Wells

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• The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Opinion, Cognitive Therapy

  Michel de Montaigne (1811). “The Essays of Michael de Montaigne”, p.308

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• For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

  Plato

  Eye, Evil, Soul

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.52, Booklassic

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• There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Worst Enemy, Evil

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.

  Robert Gilpin

  Evil, World, States

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.304, Princeton University Press

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• The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.

  John Carroll

  Men, Garden, Eden

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• There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans have left behind them, both good and evil, and that any such spiritual accumulation can stay there forever, past definition of such a stern word.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Spiritual, Believe, Past

  M.F.K. Fisher (2011). “Two Towns in Provence”, Vintage

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• The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Powerful, Character, Compassion

  "Who was Lucifer and how did he become the Devil?". 2007.

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• We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Thinking, Evil, People

  "The Banality of Heroism" by Zeno Franco, Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu. September 1, 2006.

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• The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Evil, Yang, World

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• Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Silly, Evil

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The way I wrote it is a nice and enjoyable way to write stories, to pretend to say something when you're really saying something else. "Hey guys, come, I'll take you a football match." They all come - and you suddenly take them to watch theater play on the stage instead. In Istanbul Istanbul, I pretend to talk about torture and politics, but I don't actually. Instead I talk about hope and hopelessness, darkness and light, good and evil, love and separation.

  Burhan Sonmez

  Football, Nice, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.

  Teresa of Avila

  Evil, Endurance, Patient

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• Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

  Octavio Paz

  Ideas, Evil, Drug

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.86, Arcade Publishing

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• It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

  Max Weber

  Opposites, Evil

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• A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Evil, Good Things, Enjoy

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• Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Disappointment, Drama, Writing

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• The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

  George Orwell

  Long, People, Evil

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is a war between good and evil. And we have made it clear to the world that we will stand strong on the side of good, and we expect other nations to join us. This is not a war between our world and their world. It is a war to save the world.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, Strong, War

  George W. Bush's address to State Department Employees in Washington, D.C., georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 4, 2001.

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• In his exciting debut novel, Jerel Law transports readers to a place where supernatural forces of good and evil collide. Young readers will be entertained and inspired by Spirit Fighter. I heartily recommend it.

  Robert Whitlow

  Law, Supernatural Forces, Evil

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