Good & Evil Quotes (1522 Quotes)

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

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

Then there came after them an evil posterity who inherited the Book, taking only the frail good of this low life and saying It will be forgiven us. And if the like good came to them, they would take it (too). Was not a promise taken from them in the Book that they would not speak anything about Allah but the truth, and they have read what is in it and the abode of the hereafter is better for those who guard (against evil). Do you not then understand And (as for) those who hold fast by the Book and keep up prayer, surely We do not waste the reward of the right doers.

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others - this is my criterion of goodness. And whatever injures society at large, or any individual, in it - this is my measure of iniquity.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

I am the fraud of the gambler I am the splendor of the splendid I am victory of the victorious I am resolution of the resolute I am the goodness of the good.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done.

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

To look around here and see the number of guys wearing a glove on their right hand I've never seen this, honest to goodness.

Says Tom to Jack, 'tis very odd,
These representatives of God,
In color, way of life and evil,
Should be so very like the devil.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

Since I know the past, the background, My reaction is different. If only you knew, you too will react differently. It is the consequences of the evil, deliberately done in the previous births, and so I have to allow the suffering to continue, modified often by some little compensation. I do not cause either joy or grief you are the designer of both the chains.

I can understand why they made the decision but I haven't been mischievous. It wasn't such an evil beast. It had merit and didn't have a lot of warts.

Those born blind cannot see similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

He thinketh no evil.

In the world to which the Apostles preached their new message, religion had not been the solace of the weary, the medicine of the sick, the strength of the sin-laden, the enlightenment of the ignorant It was the privilege of the healthy and the instructed. The sick and the ignorant were excluded. They were under the bondage of evil demons.

God of pity and love, return to this earth. Go not so far away, leaving us to evil. Darkness is loose upon the world, the Devil Walks in the land, and there is nothing worth. Death like a dog runs howling from his lair His bite has made men mad, they follow after All howling too, and their demoniac laughter Drowns like a sea our solitary prayer. Return, 0 Lord, return. Come with the day, Come with the light, that men may see once more Across this earth's uncomfortable floor The kindly paths, the old and loving way. Let us not die of evil in the night. Let there be God again. Let there be light.

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the Devil.

Let us to do all we can to honor all those who rose up with resolve to defeat evil, who were released into the arms of angels to see the grateful face of God,

It is a sin to believe in the evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

I not only think that they are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing, and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.

To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.

It has real passion, real emotion, real terror and a tactile sense of evil.

Virtue to resist all temptation to evil.

But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart.

All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil.

In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.

SAT is used in the sense of reality and goodness. The word 'SAT' is also used for an auspicious act, O Arjuna.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other wayin short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

All evil is like a nightmare the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

And on the day of resurrection you shall see those who lied against Allah their faces shall be blackened. Is there not in hell an abode for the proud And Allah shall deliver those who guard (against evil) with their achievement evil shall not touch them, nor shall they grieve.

We regard terrorism as an evil that threatens the world community. All countries must join hands in this common cause,

You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulae exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.

In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth.

The love of the world is the root of all 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.

Good cannot exist without evil, as the human being cannot think any other way than based on the Logical coefficient 2 of Good and Evil, Beautiful and Ugly and all the others that can define these as a common denominator.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

I believe that dogma is often evil.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

If anybody gives away a maiden possessing blemishes without declaring them, ,the bridegroom may annul that ,contract with the evil minded giver.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.