I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes.
The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound outlandish, but it's supported now by research in several laboratories.
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
I don't want to say Monsanto is evil right off the bat, but why is Monsanto so evil?
You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.
Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens.
Linda: [singing] We're going to get you. We're going to get you. Not another peep. Time to go to sleep.
Cheryl: [Mocking Scotty] You're not gonna leave me here, are you? Are ya, Ash? [Begins to cackle]
[Shelly has been hacked into several pieces] Ash: We can't bury Shelly - S-She's a friend of ours.
[last lines] [an unseen force rips through the cabin and comes up behind the unsuspecting Ash] Ash: Aaaaaah!
