664 Quotes About Good-and-evil

Water has the potential to grow life even in the barren desert, and it also has the potential to flood an entire city destroying countless lives - fire has the potential to give heat in the freezing winter, and it also has the potential to burn an entire forest to ashes. Potential is neither good nor evil, it's our intention that makes the distinction.

Sometimes it takes both good and evil power to save the world.

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

I'm on the floor against the wall and I'm shaking. I don't know what to do. I must be dreaming. Because I now know for sure I shot him.

A spell... this is real life, not some magical world - what kind of an alternate reality did I stumble into?

He could tell a storm was coming, he smelt it in the air and saw it in the way the clouds moved. He relished the rain to come; it had a purity about it as if it could wash away all his doubts, all his intentions and quell his sense of guilt when hard choices had to be made.

There are not good or evil people. Every human is born with the ability to do great evil or great good, and nearly all of them do some of both over a lifetime.

My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who have pretended to be villains so well that they believe it themselves. This is how I like to view reality.

He has managed to nurture a fine artistic sensitivity without ever developing any real sense of right and wrong. The fact that this is even possible unsettles Marianne, and makes art seem pointless suddenly.