Good Evil Quotes

• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sad

  "Fictional character: Mahatma Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

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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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• The world is a dangerous place to live

  Albert Einstein

  Dangerous World, Evil, Apathy

  Joseph Eger, Albert Einstein (2005). “Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change”, Tarcher

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• Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

  Anatole France

  Nature, Evil, Principles

  "The Revolt of the Angels".

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Evil, Harry Potter Movie

  "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

  Harlan Coben

  Baseball, Struggle Between Good And Evil, Games

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• Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Evil, Done

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• Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

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• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

  W. H. Auden

  Evil, Bed, Tables

  "Herman Melville" l. 17 (1939)

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• Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Fear, Philosophical

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• ... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Bible, Money

  "Parents still tell kids to save money. That's really obsolete". Interview with Nastassia Arendse, citizen.co.za. March 8, 2017.

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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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• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Witty

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sad, Peace, Truth

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• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Sad, Religious

  Pensees no. 894 (1670 ed.)

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• There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Fall, Learning

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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  The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Integrity, Patriotic

  "The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.

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  The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Inspirational, Men, Evil People

  Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 4 (1911)

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• The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Running, Heart, Men

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• There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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  Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Honesty, Integrity, Writing

  1847; quoted by propagandist and language maven William Safire, New York Times Magazine, 13 December 1998.

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• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Diversity, Patriotism

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

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• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  Hannah Arendt

  Inspirational, Peace, Emo

  "The Life of the Mind". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: "Thinking", 1978.

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