good vs evil quotes

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it’s actually a being. ‚Harry Potter“s a good example. So Harry’s the hero, right. But he’s tainted with evil. There’s a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It’s well balanced.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.