Good And Evil Quotes

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings. . . .

Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need.

Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.