Good And Evil Quotes

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Good, Evil

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
M. Scott Peck

Change, Good, History

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Good, Evil

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher

Politics, Good, End

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Good, Evil, Human

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Good, Evil, Words

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell

Good, Forget, Evil

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
George Orwell

Good, Evil, Hell

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good, Wisdom, Evil

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke

Good, Enemy, Evil

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard P. Feynman

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
Anatole France

Nature, Good, Evil

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Samuel Butler

Good, Art, Knowledge

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Jean Paul

Good, Children, Evil

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Good, Heart, Evil

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric Hoffer

Good, Alone, Evil

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
Maimonides

Good, Bad, Evil

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
Dennis Prager

Religion, Good, Evil

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Immanuel Kant

Good, Evil, Reason

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Maria Montessori

Good, Evil, Between

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.
Charles Van Doren

Good, Evil, Learned

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
Jacob Bronowski

Good, Justice, Evil

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
Herman Hesse

Time, Good, Evil

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza

Good, Men, Evil

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.
Dennis Prager

Good, Evil, Rich

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
Ralph Steadman

Good, Evil, Game

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
Philip Zimbardo

Good, Evil, Between

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
Dennis Prager

Life, Nature, Good

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
Salman Rushdie

Good, History, Evil

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.
Dennis Prager

Good, Evil, Human

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