Quotes of: Good-and-evil Keyword

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Philip Zimbardo

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.

Richard Jefferies

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action...

Pope Francis

Rachel Cooper: A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Wherefore by their fruits, ye shall know them.

The Night of the Hunter

Jason: You shouldn't be smoking anyway, Chloe, it's not good for you. Chloe: Yeah, well, fucking dying isn't good for you either but that doesn't seem to be stopping anybody!

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to c...

Bill James

I'm of the opinion that many Christians are in deep denial about the reality of there being 'real' Evil in this world. Evil that cannot be reasoned with; is reprobate, incorrigible, determined, un-appeasable, violent, murderous, and unrelenting. I fi...

R. Alan Woods

The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?" "Wouldn't I wh...

Death Bringer

Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves in such a way that one starts feeling the pain and pleasure of another person as if of one’s own. Hatred can be defined as just the opposite – to...

Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin

You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll come out. Now what you've got to understand is that the wheel's not evil. Never mind what the scared men all tell you. no discovery is good or evil unt...

The Seeds of Time

Sister Anna: Do you ever see the Hand of God in what you do? Creasy: No, not for a long time. Sister Anna: The Bible says, "Do not be over come with evil, but overcome...? Creasy: But overcome evil with good." Creasy: [in spanish] That's Romans Chapt...

Man on Fire

How do evil people find the strength to do good?

The Four Stages of Cruelty: A Novel

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Pythagoras

It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil.

Master of Stupidity

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

Proven Guilty

The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.

Pancho Land

We are not Jesus Christ; we are sinners. But it is up to you whether you want to be good or evil.

Joshua Lim Dao Yang

There is more goodness than evil in the world, but you know, you still got to work at it.

Lasky Kathryn

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

Adam Hamilton

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato