Quotes About Good

Even the DEVIL is only eighty percent EVIL, and not one hundred percent.

Little Jack Horner sat in the corner,Eating a Christmas pie.He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum,And said, "What a good boy am I!"

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

I thought, Hatred is vital to good health, and I thought, To find ourselves in harmony with the world is a lethal infection.

Spontaneous feelings signify the overall state of life regulation of an organism as good, bad, or in between.

The people of the earth have it in their power to see that modern inventions are employed solely for their spiritual and material good.

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

Howarth began to see that, however much it was against ones will and convictions, sides had to be taken, the dreary corrupt world of politics had to be entered by the good and dispassionate, to protect and avenge the weak. But one always entered too late.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.

People were often good, and did good things, such as the things that had been done to help after Vesuvius erupted, but as soon as those same people were given any authority or power, they abused it, or ignored the human consequences of their actions. And the people who ended up suffering most were always the women, because they had no authority or power

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

Thomas Aquinas puts it nicely when he says, "Every time someone sins, they're sinning under the guise of good.

But we are the good guys. Aren't we, Uncle?" "I hope so. I hope we are.

He understands that people will want to hear something, but not the truth: they'll want a story of perseverance and pluck, good overcoming evil, a homecoming song about a hero who brought light into dark places.

These numbers, they're more than numbers. Do you understand?" "But we are the good guys. Aren't we, Uncle?" "I hope so. I hope we are.

Supreme Good and Evil (De finibus)

in which the muse of epic poetry, Calliope, appears to him and gives him some advice: Meantime the paths which you from earliest days did seek, Yes, and when Consul too, as mood and virtue called, These hold, and foster still your fame and good men's praise.

The statesman and moralist Cato the Censor defined an orator as "a good man skilled in speech.

Just as nothing can be said to be either contrary to or in accordance with God's will, so nothing is either good or bad from God's perspective, which is to say from the point of view of nature or the universe as a whole:

Evil will never win entirely. It can't. It's not in its nature.

Another false arrest coming so soon after the last one isn't going to look too good on your CV, is it!

Man was a complicated animal capable of extraordinary good and great evil – but he was definitely on his own.