664 Quotes About Good-and-evil

I know you’re busy. But, if you ever get the chance to travel, I recommend a visit to Karan. It’s a little village on the coast of Western Africa — delicate trees, clear waters, soft beaches, and tiny hills that bend toward the sky. Really, it’s a fascinating place, especially since they do not have a word for Good or Evil.

Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and, consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are alike second-rate, unimportant.

He seemed to love them: to know how to separate the little good that was in them from that hard crust of evil, which misery had put around their hearts.

Let go others! Get your shit together. Thereafter, don't impose this crap on another.

The people who deserved to die took forever to do so. Those who deserved to live always went too soon.

Over the years, our society has become fascinated with characters who are not fully evil or fully good, but instead lie somewhere in the middle. Our obsession with antiheroes and antivillains is a result of social ideals being rewritten. We are unmaking the concept of wickedness. As the popularity of the 'heroes' in Batman, The Punisher, and Suicide Squad shows, the lines between heroes and villains have become blurred.

Let us drink more particularly to the coming of the day when men beyond there will learn to distinguish between qualitative and quantitative questions, to temper good intentions with good intelligence, and righteousness with wisdom. One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

Those concocting evil schemes rarely perform them in descending order of evilness, so he could assume phase two was to be worse.

Knowing what's moral is easy, acting on it is the difficult part.