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Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped.
— Neil Gaiman
Knowledge is power, but how you use that power defines whether you're good, or evil.
— Daniel Jackson
The sooner the jihadis go up to their imagined #heaven, the sooner our earth would be a heaven.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it a 'good.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It is important to remember that good overcomes evil
— Sunday Adelaja
The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
The power is neither evil not good; it simply exists. It is up to the mind of man to put it to use.
— Terry Goodkind
This was an evil choice. Which way should he choose? And if both led to terror and death, what good lay in choice?
— J.R.R. Tolkien
There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
— Benjamin Banneker
The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.
— Austin O'Malley
Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.
— Luigi Pirandello
Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.
— Pema Chodron
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
— Saint Francis De Sales
I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.
— Ruth St. Denis
It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?
— Piper Kerman
When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
— Ted Dekker
To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.
— Dogen
All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.
— Rufus Wainwright
Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!
— Tasha Smith
You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know it is dead wrong.
— Billy Graham
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
— Antonio Porchia
Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'
— A. E. Waite
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
— Alice Walker
To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.
— J. Budziszewski
Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
— John Fowles
We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.
— Hans Christian Andersen
We are all measured, good or evil, by the wrong we do to others;
— Shirley Jackson
There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.
— Joe Hill
Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards.
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
It has been said that for evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing.
— Charles F. Aked
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
— Plato
Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.
— Marianne Williamson
Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.
— Joyce Rachelle
You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
— Rachel Bilson
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil ... or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
— Veronica Roth
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Good and evil are silly lies, nonsense put forth to plague honest sensible men.
— George R R Martin
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
— Comte De Lautreamont
This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.
— Swami Vivekananda
I write because I always want good to win over evil
— Anamika Mishra
The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act.
— Dean Koontz
It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.
— Gail Carriger
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
— Benjamin Whichcote
Maybe this wasn't a good idea. He didn't have time to fight an evil symbiot. He had a softball tournament on Sunday.
— Adam Graham
You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
— Leo Tolstoy
Of course, apologies are rarely acceptable to true believers - or to anyone who believes in *pure* good, or in pure evil.
— John Irving
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.
— Washington Irving
O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
— Walt Whitman
Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions.
— Imagawa Sadayo
And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference ...
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
There isn't a man on earth who doesn't at times pronounce an opinion on good and evil, even if it be only to find fault with somebody else.
— Simone Weil
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
— Gautama Buddha
The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.
— Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
— Edmund Burke
Ceaselessly, evil battles with good, right clashes with wrong, darkness comes against the light, and the counterfeit struggles to supplant the real.
— Bob Larson
Whoever neglects doing good is inviting addiction to evil.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
— Ambrose Bierce
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
One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
— Thomas Aquinas
The Bible may be an arresting and
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins
Many people make devices that can be used for good or evil. You cannot blame the blacksmith when the swords he crafts are used to kill.
— Lindsay Buroker
The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
Where evil men would seek to perpetuate
an unjust status quo,
good men must seek to bring into being
a real order of justice. — Martin Luther King Jr.
an unjust status quo,
good men must seek to bring into being
a real order of justice. — Martin Luther King Jr.
In order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.
— Gautama Buddha
God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.
— Mark Hart
It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.
— Anthony Burgess
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.
— William James
I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.
— Charles Van Doren
There is more goodness than evil in the world, but you know, you still got to work at it.
— Lasky Kathryn
Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.
— Matthew Woodring Stover
For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater.
— Aristotle.
Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.
— Karen Marie Moning
For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.
— Thomas Boston