Quotes on Good Evil

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

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.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

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

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

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

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.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

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

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.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

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.

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

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.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

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

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 meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.