Quotes of: Good-and-evil Keyword

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

Daisaku Ikeda

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

Walter Lang

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

Alexander Skarsgard

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Benjamin Haydon

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

David Viscott

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

James Russell Lowell

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

Pythagoras

You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!

Rachel Bilson

He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it.

Rosario Dawson

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Scott Alexander

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

Xun Zi

Evil forges a tornado. But goodness battles in a straight line.

Caris Roane

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

E. M. Forster

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

Baruch Spinoza

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Menander

[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposites are of Lucifer. It is as impossible for most men to conceive of a...

The Crucible

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where o...

Blindness

Stepping back and connecting reconciliation to God’s story also helps us move away from dramatic visions of fixing the world, as if our job were to provide solutions to problems outside us. If Christians believe anything, it is that no one—includ...

Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or go...

Mere Christianity

Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods and animals. In the Garden, after all, the snake approached God's image-bearer, directing her as tho...

Russell D. Moore

How, in such an alien and inhuman world, can so powerless a creature as man preserve his aspirations untarnished? A strange mystery it is that nature, omnipotent but blind, in the revolutions of her secular hurryings through the abysses of space, has...

Bertrand Russell