Quotes About Evil

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Evil will win if good people do nothing.

If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.