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Good And Evil Quotes

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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

Authors on Good And Evil Quotes: Baltasar Gracian Maureen Dowd Flannery O'Connor Andre Norton John Milton Richard John Neuhaus Benjamin Whichcote Baron de Montesquieu Frederick Lenz Samuel Johnson Philip Zimbardo Howard Dean Isobelle Carmody Anne Bishop Martin Luther King, Jr. Nadine Gordimer Charles Van Doren Elizabeth Madox Roberts James Tiptree Jr. Sarada Devi Plato Louise Erdrich George Bernard Shaw Anton Szandor LaVey Matthieu Ricard Mahatma Gandhi Alan Bullock Edmund Burke Friedrich Kellner Raymond E. Feist Pope Francis Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne William Godwin
2.
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

3.
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche

4.
Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.
Origen

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The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.
Sarada Devi

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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
Pope Leo XIII

7.
Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.
Anton Szandor LaVey

8.
Evil is a form of incompetence.
Alan Bullock

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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Samuel Johnson

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Power should be a check on power.
Baron de Montesquieu

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Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil.
Friedrich Kellner

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good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.
Marilyn Manson

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Historically, means cannot be separated from ends.
Harold Laski

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By doing good we become good.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.
Baltasar Gracian

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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

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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.
Plato

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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
Benito Mussolini

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The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.
Philip Zimbardo

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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
Louise Erdrich

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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke

23.
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
Henry David Thoreau

24.
Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.
Flannery O'Connor

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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
Benjamin Whichcote

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What's devil to some is good to some others.
Elizabeth Madox Roberts

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Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
Matthieu Ricard

28.
Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.
Raymond E. Feist

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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
Sam Mendes

30.
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

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Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
Richard John Neuhaus

32.
good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.
James Tiptree Jr.

33.
Power is not happiness.
William Godwin

34.
Either the law exists, or it does not.
Andre Norton

35.
Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.
Maureen Dowd

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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
John Milton

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

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We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.
Anne Bishop

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Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.
Isobelle Carmody

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This is a struggle between good and evil and we're the good?
Howard Dean

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You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.
Nadine Gordimer

42.
I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
George Bernard Shaw

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

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The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us
Pope Francis

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Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.
Bruno Dumont

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Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.
Matthew Woodring Stover

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Power always brings with it responsibility.
Theodore Roosevelt

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We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
Desmond Tutu

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What millions died that Caesar might be great!
Thomas Campbell

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We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.
Phyllis Bottome