Good and evil proverbs

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◆ We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.

- Neal Shusterman98

◆ Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

- Benjamin Franklin98

◆ One thing yo learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

- Neal Shusterman98

◆ The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...

- E.A. Bucchianeri98

◆ Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

- Elisabeth Elliot98

◆ Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

- Sheri Holman98

◆ Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.

- Nora Roberts98

◆ Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.

- Keith Haring98

◆ Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.

- Henryk Sienkiewicz98

◆ ... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.

- E.A. Bucchianeri98

◆ And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.

- William Faulkner98

◆ People may be persuaded that the machine is doing good. In fact, good is only capable of being done on a small scale. Evil is more versatile. You can hate those you have never seen, all the vast multitudes of them, but you can only love those you know — and that with difficulty.

- John Christopher98

◆ In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, rage, absurdity; the hodgepodge of genuine distress, and lying sentiment, the shamelessness of a vicious man rejoicing in viciousness, the bare crudity of an ugly soul -- in this eruption of all suffering and hatred there was something which was hideous as evil itself and still as poignant as truth.

- Victor Hugo98

◆ Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?

- H. Rider Haggard98

◆ She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like witches who lured people into the woods. In a weird way, the world seemed to make more sense that way.

- Anne Ursu98