Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil. Votes: 2
Paolo BacigalupiGood or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction. Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynNonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiIf religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good. Votes: 0
Morris Raphael CohenWe often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldI oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil. Votes: 0
Alexander McQueenEvery political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. Votes: 0
Mary WollstonecraftPleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeInability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference, Votes: 0
Abraham Joshua HeschelThe battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynEverythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice. Votes: 0
Tom HiddlestonThe humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherEveryone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. Votes: 0
Laurell K. HamiltonEvery home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large. Votes: 0
Julia McNair WrightIt is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. Votes: 0
John Maynard Keynesgood and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions. Votes: 0
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevignePeople's good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareGood and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaIn the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed. Votes: 0
Eduardo GaleanoGood is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyThe potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil. Votes: 0
Larry WallThe line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. Votes: 0
Alexandr SolzhenitsynGood and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature Votes: 0
John LockeGood masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil. Votes: 0
Saint BasilEvil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good. Votes: 0
Karen Marie MoningEvil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience. Votes: 0
John of KronstadtWith Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred. Votes: 0
Melika Dannese LuxI hate cellphones. They are not for good, they're for evil. They're for gossip. Votes: 0
Jeff GarlinIn the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever. Votes: 0
Will DurantLet us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil. Votes: 0
David SarnoffAny institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil. Votes: 0
Maximilien RobespierreThe important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil. Votes: 0
Walt DisneyThe battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day. Votes: 0
Stephen KingGood people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisIt's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil. Votes: 0
Michael ChiklisBetter good afarre off, then evill at hand. [Better good afar than evil at hand.] Votes: 0
George HerbertTolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiWithout publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue. Votes: 0
Jeremy BenthamIt is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonA good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisFree will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheAccording to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings. Votes: 0
BodhidharmaWhen good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. Votes: 0
Pearl S. BuckWhatever contributes to the preservation of life is good; all that destroys life is evil. Votes: 0
Gerhard DomagkGood necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked. Votes: 0
Ann LeckieWhen "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good. Votes: 0
Arthur GuitermanChristians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did Votes: 0
Pope FrancisSome have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonGood people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of. Votes: 0
Orson Scott CardIt's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. Votes: 0
Stephen KingI believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinMusic is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true! Votes: 0
Dmitri ShostakovichEvil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonHowever things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowScience in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyWisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. Votes: 0
John CheeverEvery high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheGood and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger. Votes: 0
James Branch CabellI want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil. Votes: 0
Hideo KojimaAlways do good when you're tempted to do evil. The reward in doing good is priceless. Votes: 0
Kemi SogunleThose who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long. Votes: 0
AesopWhenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaGood, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisThe only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence. Votes: 0
Rory MillerHe said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. Votes: 0
SocratesThe peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil. Votes: 0
Andrei CodrescuOne man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can. Votes: 0
Harold S. KushnerThe first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. Votes: 0
Maria MontessoriThere is only one good, that is knowledge; there is only one evil, that is ignorance. Votes: 0
AristotleIt seems it doesn't pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil." Votes: 0
Anthony LiccioneThe object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good. Votes: 0
Horace MannIt's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small. Votes: 0
Bob ThavesOnly trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisA Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good. Votes: 0
John of KronstadtIt is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonFor our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheIn innocence there is no strength against evil [...] but there is strength in it for good. Votes: 0
Ursula K. Le GuinWe may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come. Votes: 0
Maria Weston ChapmanThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Votes: 0
Edmund BurkeSo the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all. Votes: 0
Patrick NessIf there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too? Votes: 0
Patricia BriggsEverybody has got good and evil in them. I'd like to be 100% evil, but I can't. Votes: 0
Richard RamirezRemember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. Votes: 0
P. C. CastFar from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. Votes: 0
Soren KierkegaardDefinition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like. Votes: 0
Anton Szandor LaVeyA good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. Votes: 0
Baruch SpinozaOne soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good. Votes: 0
George EliotBattle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own. Votes: 0
P. C. CastThe evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareIt seems it doesn't pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil. Votes: 0
Anthony LiccioneTrue love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisThe Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil. Votes: 0
Washington IrvingEverything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheFar, far below, red liquid bubbled. Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? None of the posibilities were good. Votes: 0
Rick RiordanWe cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. Votes: 0
Cato the ElderNo man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Votes: 0
Mary WollstonecraftI tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil. Votes: 0
Sylvester StalloneThe best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil. Votes: 0
Wilkie CollinsAlmost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonA good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Votes: 0
Matthew McConaugheyAnimals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame. Votes: 0
Justin TorresThere is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love. Votes: 0
Wilm HosenfeldIf it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsWe cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise. Votes: 0
Hans Christian AndersenNo one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist. Votes: 0
Julian JaynesHumanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love. Votes: 0
Wladyslaw SzpilmanHaving received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good. Votes: 0
Joseph B. WirthlinThings which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens. Votes: 0
Baruch SpinozaThis is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. Votes: 0
Peace PilgrimEvil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial. Votes: 0
James Tiptree Jr.There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness. Votes: 0
William BlakeGod judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineWhy are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that. Votes: 0
Neil GaimanYou are alone my evil and my good With you I have everything - without you nothing Votes: 0
Louise LabeIt feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one. Votes: 0
M.F. MoonzajerTo do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good. Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIn many ways, the church seems to hate evil more than it loves good or even God. Votes: 0
Carlton PearsonIf you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanI also feel that if you were evil, then next time around you would be very good. Votes: 0
Patricia VelasquezThe momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. Votes: 0
Francis BaconIs it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? Votes: 0
Anthony BurgessI think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. Votes: 0
William StyronThere is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. Votes: 0
J. K. RowlingI would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. Votes: 0
EuripidesWe're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another. Votes: 0
Annette BeningWhatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheThe evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciBe the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisI've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be. Votes: 0
Charles Van DorenI do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. Votes: 0
Wilhelm SteinitzThe curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself Votes: 0
SophoclesWe...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough. Votes: 0
Scott HahnI see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution. Votes: 0
Jonas SalkEvery person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges. Votes: 0
Piers AnthonyEvery evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom. Votes: 0
Coventry PatmoreConquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaThe combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. Votes: 0
George SantayanaWar is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it. Votes: 0
B. H. Liddell HartIn reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil. Votes: 0
Simone WeilThe good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. Votes: 0
Jean de La FontaineIt isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow. Votes: 0
Gregory MaguireGood and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others Votes: 0
Matthieu RicardThe dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. Votes: 0
John LockeWe cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil. Votes: 0
Helen KellerWho are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheReason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities. Votes: 0
Reinhard BendixWe frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldEvil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself. Votes: 0
Sergei LukyanenkoIn real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinThe difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end. Votes: 0
Ajay DevganThe choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. Votes: 0
George OrwellMothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world. Votes: 0
Benjamin RushThe Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil. Votes: 0
Elaine PagelsA good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor. Votes: 0
Thomas MoreThere is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that's all you will hate Votes: 0
Dennis PragerNo man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Votes: 0
Mary WollstonecraftI have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced Votes: 0
Joseph ConradIt's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy. Votes: 0
Brian HelgelandThe most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. Votes: 0
PythagorasLet a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones. Votes: 0
Sholom RokeachIts as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy. Votes: 0
Brian HelgelandI do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. Votes: 0
LaoziI do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. Votes: 0
Lao TzuNo one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil. Votes: 0
Tsugumi Ohba... and we will test you with evil and with good; and unto us shall ye be brought back. Votes: 0
Elijah MuhammadIt's good for a man to get drunk once in a while. It releases all the evil spirits. Votes: 0
James ClavellThe two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil. Votes: 0
Amit AbrahamEvil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. Votes: 0
Alain BadiouTo do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. Votes: 0
William PennEvery act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light. Votes: 0
Joseph CampbellI believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want. Votes: 0
GG AllinHe uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it. Votes: 0
Rosario DawsonThe distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either. Votes: 0
Amish TripathiGood never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning. Votes: 0
Charles DickensWhen the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil... Votes: 0
Pier Paolo PasoliniThere is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer. Votes: 0
Robert Staughton LyndTrue and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is... Votes: 0
Jasper FfordeTrue charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over. Votes: 0
Alphonsus LiguoriDo something: be it good or evil, if they ask why you did it, tell them you're different. Votes: 0
Michael Bassey JohnsonThe relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneWisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. Votes: 0
John CheeverIt is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil? Votes: 0
Amish TripathiHalf of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good. Votes: 0
Mark TwainThere surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. Votes: 0
Benjamin HaydonEvil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value. Votes: 0
Konrad LorenzIt is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil. Votes: 0
AristotleMoney, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value Votes: 0
Konrad LorenzGood and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad. Votes: 0
Sheri HolmanLook for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for. Votes: 0
Bill VaughanThe Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men. Votes: 0
Edmund BurkeThe worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciThat the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones. Votes: 0
Jennifer Lee CarrellSatan can never be as evil as our God is good. His mercy is limitless. His love is limitless! Votes: 0
Karen WheatonNo one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoThe Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil. Votes: 0
Sarada DeviLanguage is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. Votes: 0
Alice WalkerA good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. Votes: 0
William PennThe evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldI think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good? Votes: 0
Robert McNamaraIt is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know. Votes: 0
Henry Allen IronsideThe worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done. Votes: 0
Léon BloyLittle evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good. Votes: 0
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachIt is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroO God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor. Votes: 0
Nazr MohammedI could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other. Votes: 0
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two. Votes: 0
John CheeverThere is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is. Votes: 0
Simone WeilThe hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things. Votes: 0
Austin O'MalleyThe more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. Votes: 0
Jean-Paul SartreMuch of what happens in our world is evil and bad, but God specializes in bringing good out of it. Votes: 0
Rick WarrenOf what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil? Votes: 0
Alfred de VignyI do not believe in a mixture of good and evil in the world, or in myself. All is Good. Votes: 0
Emma Curtis HopkinsMasks camouflage the faces of both good and evil. Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie. Votes: 0
Patti RobertsA man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil. Votes: 0
Ted NugentWar is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you. Votes: 0
Ted NugentGive a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt. Votes: 0
Brander MatthewsNo man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing. Votes: 0
Michael CrichtonThere is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one. Votes: 0
EuripidesIt is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out. Votes: 0
Johann Gottfried HerderBut a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents. Votes: 0
Immanuel KantDuty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good. Votes: 0
John FowlesIf the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good. Votes: 0
Pope Gregory IIt is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of anotherfor in it are good and evil mixed. Votes: 0
Lloyd AlexanderMoney is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle. Votes: 0
Jim StovallTo kill a citizen of our own country is evil, but to kill a citizen of another country is 'good.' Votes: 0
Edgar MitchellTo do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good. Votes: 0
Samuel ParrThe sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. Votes: 0
Hannah ArendtIn all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men. Votes: 0
Mary RenaultNot all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us. Votes: 0
Philibert Joseph RouxWe pay Karma not only for the evil we do but also for the good left undone, being able to do it. Votes: 0
Samael Aun WeorMoney, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man. Votes: 0
PhiloMen may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. Chesterton