Quotes of: Good-and-evil Keyword

Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.

Beyond Good and Evil

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Baltasar Gracian

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Anne Rice

The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.

Léon Bloy

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

Stefan Molyneux

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Tryon Edwards

If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plautus

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.

David Sarnoff

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

John Locke

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

Mackenzie Astin

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Maria Montessori

Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.

Marianne Williamson

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Soren Kierkegaard

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

Wilhelm Steinitz

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

Boethius

The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

Cassandra Clare

The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.

Life

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

Hesiod

Right and wrong are superstitions; your desires, however, are real. Those who cannot achieve their desires, or who despair of doing so, often compensate by constructing imaginary frameworks. For example, if you wish to live in a world in which no one...

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