158 quotes found
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”
“Don't consider painful what's good for you.”
“I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.”
“And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident ...”
“Be inspired by the goodness in people and not their flaws.”
“Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.”
“You've got ice in your veins, but you're smart enough to keep it from freezing your heart.”
“I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spid...”
“So a good man can be a bad Christian?""I suppose so.""Then a bad man," I said, "can be a good Christian?”
“We refused to be what world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it is going to be.”
“Media has the ability to make good seem evil and evil seem good.”
“The boundary between good and evil are clearer for more common folks but gets blurred more and more as people get more power over their fellows.”
“So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We...”
“In spite of minor hassles, life was good.”
“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 ma...”
“The image that comes to mind is a boxing ring. There are times when...you just want that bell to ring, but you're the one who's losing. The one who's winning doesn't have that feeling. Do you have ...”
“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 mu...”
“It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile?”
“All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.”