Quotes About Good

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.

What is the greater good but tyranny's chameleon?

Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good.

I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light.

I'd gazed into the abyss and the abyss had gazed back, just like Daddy always said it would: You want to know about life, Mac? It's simple. Keep watching rainbows, baby. Keep looking at the sky. You find what you look for. If you go hunting good in the world, you'll find it. If you go hunting evil . . . well, don't.

Lass, doona fear me. No matter what happens, promise me you will not fear me. I am a good man, I vow I am.

Nem olyan könny? megkülönböztetni egymástól a jó- és a rosszfiúkat, mint korábban hittem. Nem elég ránézni valakire ahhoz, hogy ítélkezzünk. A szívünkkel kell látnunk.

Evil, good, create, destroy. Puny minds. Puny caves. Time, MacKayla. Time absolves. "Time does not define the act. Time is impartial; it neither condemns nor absolves. The action contains intent, and intent is where the definition lies.

Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.

Evil isn't a state of being, Barrons once said to me. It's a choice.

Old witch passed on a few good things but they'll never counter all the evil she did.

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Why does the choice between good and evil have to involve personal comfort?

I don't know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It's the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades.

A good life is the result of a thousand small choices and so is a bad one.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Morality, Schlick was convinced, is not tied to self-denial: "It does not come dressed in a nun's habit." Quite the contrary: "Moral behavior springs from pleasure and pain; if one acts nobly, it is because one enjoys doing so…. Values are not dictated from above, but lie within; it is human nature to be good.

There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

Listen, my timing might be bad, but my intentions are good.

What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.

I don't mind people going about unobtrusively doing good, but I can't stomach moral indignation.

God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.