Good Against Evil Quotes

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

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.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

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

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

George W. Bush is using language that's a mirror image of the language of Osama bin Laden when he says, "We have God on our side. This is the struggle of good against evil."

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

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

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

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 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.

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

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

Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn’t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where everyone has their back against the wall, where everyone is in pain and acting selfishly because if they don’t, they’ll die. Imagine a story, not of good against evil, but of need against need against need, where everyone is at cross-purposes and everyone is to blame.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

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

The world is a dangerous place to live

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.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

There’s a whole psychological reason for those cartoons about good against evil. We have "Superman" and all those other hero people, so that we can go out into life and try to be something. I’ve got most of Disney’s animated movies on video-tapes, and when we watch them. Oh, I could just eat it, eat it. […] Jimmy Cricket, Pinocchio, Mickey Mouse – these are world-known characters. Some of the greatest political figures have come to the United States to meet them.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

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

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.

Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations mental illness clouds our judgment.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.