664 Quotes About Good-and-evil

There is no one who is completely evil as to lack some goodness in him.

Pest hoort bij het leven zoals oorlog en de dood. Zonder het kwaad zouden we niet kunnen stilstaan bij de goede dingen des levens." Hij lachte flauw. "Als kwaad nodig is om goed te kunnen herhennen, hoe kan het paradijs dan een en al goedheid zijn?

There was the kind of silence there might have been on the day before Creation. Adam stood smiling at the two of them, a small figure perfectly poised exactly between Heaven and Hell. Crowley grabbed Aziraphale's arm. "You know what happened?" he hissed excitedly. "He was left alone! He grew up human! He's not Evil Incarnate or Good Incarnate, he's just...a human incarnate-

Das Böse ist immer nur extrem, aber niemals radikal, es hat keine Tiefe, auch keine Dämonie. Es kann die ganze Welt verwüsten, gerade weil es wie ein Pilz an der Oberfläche weiterwuchert. Tief aber und radikal ist immer nur das Gute.

There is more evil than good when we preach the miracle centered gospel instead if the kingdom gospel.

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

[But] I fear that in the individual lives of all but a few, the balance is in debit - we do so little that is positive good, even if we negatively avoid what is actively evil.

We're the gray area, angel. We're the pieces of the puzzle they don't know what to do with, the pieces that don't quite fit into their perfect little picture, so they choose to discard us, to keep their image untainted, but we can only be ignored for so long. Because eventually, whether they want to admit it or not, all of their black and white will bleed together anyway.

Right and wrong stood for him as immutable as the two poles. He had never wandered in that twilight country where the nuances of evil and good cast their perplexing shadows.