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  • Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

    Sweet   Light   Woe Unto  
  • The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

    Hurt   Integrity   Evil  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”
  • The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

    "The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.
  • Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

  • There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

    "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". www.imdb.com. 2001.
  • Evil events from evil causes spring.

    Spring   Evil   Events  
    Aristophanes, Thomas Mitchell (1820). “The comedies of Aristophanes”
  • When [Bill Clinton] was running for president. I'll never forget this one. He was running in New Hampshire. He was not doing well. And he suddenly, over a weekend, rushed back to Little Rock to execute a guy who had killed a cop, but in the process, the policeman had shot him in the head and he was out of it. He didn't know today from tomorrow, good, evil, whatever. His lawyer begged - his lawyer was an old friend of Clinton.

    Running   Weekend   Rocks  
    Source: thedailyhatch.org
  • All evils are equal when they are extreme.

    Evil   Equal   Good Evil  
    "Horace". Book by Pierre Corneille, III. 4, 1639.
  • Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

  • Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.

    Two   Evil   Hazards  
    Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.94, Simon and Schuster
  • America as did with Israel with its blessing has been turning away from God driving Him out of its public squares. Bring in idols in its place and calling what is evil good and what is good evil. ... The glory of the city on the hill is fading and America now stands in danger of impending judgment, and we all know it.

  • The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

    Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 4 (1911)
  • The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

    M. Scott Peck (2015). “The People Of The Lie”, p.290, Random House
  • Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

    1847; quoted by propagandist and language maven William Safire, New York Times Magazine, 13 December 1998.
  • Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

    Evil   Mind   Empty  
  • Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good.

    "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.
  • Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

  • No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

    Happiness   Mistake   Men  
    Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

    Struggle   Winning   Evil  
  • Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

    Evil   Laughing   Leafs  
  • Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

    Sorry   Men   Evil  
  • Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

  • Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.

    Charles Colson (2012). “The Good Life”, p.191, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'. Only egotism exists.

    Stars   Light   Race  
  • Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

    Wise   Wisdom   Witty  
  • As we look into the future, we are going to need to be stronger and more responsible for our choices in a world where people "call evil good, and good evil." We do not choose wisely if we use our agency in opposition to God's will or to priesthood counsel. Tomorrow's blessings and opportunities depend on the choices we make today.

  • The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.

    Running   Evil   Mind  
    Achaan Chah, Ajahn Chah (2006). “A Taste of Freedom: Selected Dhamma Talks”, p.48, Buddhist Publication Society
  • Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

    Winning   Order   Evil  
    Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.110, Courier Corporation
  • Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

    Essence   Evil   Dying  
  • Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us--female, male; Christian, Islamic; good, evil. All at the whim of a frail minority.

    Christian   Islamic   Law  
    Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.230, Simon and Schuster
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