Good and evil quotations

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◆ God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over, it's because you choose to.

- James Swain98

◆ You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.

- Leo Tolstoy98

◆ We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

- H. Rider Haggard98

◆ I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.

- Tom Holland98

◆ All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

- Ellis Peters98

◆ Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God

- John Irving98

◆ Deep inside, the majority of people had the sneaking suspicion that evil was more powerful than good and could be counteracted only by more evil.

- Randall Garrett98

◆ A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesn't deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesn't desire in all.

- Anuj Somany98

◆ All people may not always know those who are not actually good, but they sooner or later get to know all those who are always relatively good.

- Anuj Somany98

◆ It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.

- Gene Wolfe98

◆ Sully disapproved of destruction for destruction's sake, which seemed ever more popular in the modern world, but he always took delight in burning out or otherwise eliminating Evil when Evil just couldn't keep its ugly head down and stay in the shadows, when it came right at you with all teeth bared. The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

- Dean Koontz98

◆ There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein98

◆ If a person finds the negative people in his network, then he needs to mind or mend his own nature than others for his basic grounding decides only the level of acidic or toxic surrounding.

- Anuj Somany98

◆ Happiness is a fortress.

- Fuminori Nakamura98