You need to identify good and evil in your life. Because evil things won’t let you live a good life. Find here the collection of some best inspirational good and evil quotes that will help you to conquer evil things with good deeds.
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Let’s read the collection of best inspirational good and evil quotes.
Best Good And Evil Quotes
1. “A joyful soul, a grateful spirit full of love and light!” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
2. “Active evil is better than passive good.” ― William Blake
3. “All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.” ― Plato
4. “Any deed, for good or evil, that any human being has ever done, you and I could also do–given the same situational forces.” ― Philip Zimbardo
5. “Being good is not a state of mind, it is a constant struggle. – On Being Good” ― Lamine Pearlheart
6. “Beware when wrong-doing is called good and right-doing is called evil.” ― R. Alan Woods
7. “Conquer evil with good deeds.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
8. “Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don’t like.” ― Anton Szandor LaVey
9. “Every morning most of the people wake up alive than dead, so I do have a faith there is still some goodness left in the man.” ― Amit Kalantri
10. “Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.” ― Suzy Kassem
11. “Evil always rushes in to fill the void created by the absence of good. The only thing that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing, and unfortunately, that is what too many good people choose to do…” ― Jim Rohn
12. “Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.” ― Nora Roberts
13. “Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel
14. “Good and bad exist always, everywhere.” ― R. Alan Woods
15. “Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. The greater good is just halfway back to Bad.” ― Sheri Holman
16. “Good and evil has no passport; it speaks in different tongues, wears many skins, and exists everywhere, even in the same person.” ― A.H. Amin, Psychs
Best Good vs Evil Quotes
17. “Evil is termed as sin because it has the power to attract the mind. It acts upon our mind and heart to do what nature desires, even when such acts are prohibited by the laws of society. We feel guilty doing things that nature has designed as perfectly natural.” ― Awdhesh Singh
18. “Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn’t fail to devastate in its time.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
19. “Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.” ― Matthew Stover
20. “Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.” ― Ann Leckie
21. “Good to evil seems evil.” ― Ray Bradbury
22. “Good wins in the end because evil is a self-destructive, cannibalistic force that Inevitably engorges upon itself.” ― Ken Poirot
23. “Good loses. Good always loses because good has to play by the rules. Evil doesn’t.” ― Henry Mills
24. “All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.” ― Vernor Vinge
25. “No one is only good or only bad. We have a bit of both inside of us all.” ― Erica Crouch
26. “Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenge that is around them.” ― Alister McGrath
27. “The concept of good versus evil is a handy construct for framing a narrative. When you see someone applying that concept to real-world events, however, be aware that you’re in the presence of a peddler of fiction.” ― Stewart Stafford
28. “Evil doesn’t actually exist. It’s just an abstract concept we use to describe shitty behavior. It’s an idea, a concept, a thought, not a thing.” ― Oliver Markus Malloy
29. “Life would be so much easier with magic powers. Then again, no matter how powerful you are, there’s always an evil Voldemort ready to try to destroy you.” ― Jenny Lynne
30. “If we believe that God is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana
31. “Good at the wrong place and time becomes evil; evil in the right place and time becomes good.” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana
32. “Goodness will always win over evil, no matter how much the evil attempts to break you. More than that, you are never truly in darkness. Sometimes, all you need to do is turn on the light.” ― Melyssa Winchester, Holding on to Heaven
Famous Quotes About Good And Evil
33. “I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.” ― Charles Dickens
34. “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.” ― Carl Novakovich
35. “If you feel you are right all the time, you will feel lonesome after some time.” ― Amit Kalantri
36. “Life is unpredictable, but you can at least control how you handle the good and the bad.” ― Carlos Wallace
37. “Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.” ― Kouta Hirano
38. “Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.” ― Paulo Coelho
39. “Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.” ― C. S. Lewis
40. “Media has the ability to make good seem evil and evil seem good.” ― Duncan William Gibbons
41. “Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God” ― John Irving
42. “No one is morale among the god-controlled puppets of the Iliad. Good and evil do not exist.” ― Julian Jaynes
43. “No one, good or evil, ceases to exist; life is energy and energy cannot be created or destroyed; it is recycled.” ― Patricia Cornwell Blow Fly
44. “Not only does evil depend upon good, but in this case, darkness depends upon light.” ― Jonathan L. Walls
45. “Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle
46. “Our minds are a battleground between good and bad ideas; we are whatever side wins the battle” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana
47. “People choose because there are choices. And because they themselves created those choices. People created evil, and molded the clay with their own hands. And as they created evil they acknowledged its opposite as good.” ― Kelleen Goerlitz
Inspirational Good And Evil Quotes
48. “Some people’s good always coincides with other people’s evil, but the opposite is also true.” ― Donato Carrisi
49. “Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we’ve faced them.” ― Sarah J. Maas
50. “The animal that pretends to be human is no human, but the animal who acknowledges and tames their innate animality is the first human.” ― Abhijit Naskar
51. “The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?” ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
52. “Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.” ― Anthony Burgess
53. “He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.” ― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada
54. “The fates weren’t dangerous because they were evil; the fates were dangerous because they couldn’t tell the difference between evil and good.” ― Stephanie Garber
55. “The good and bad are indistinguishable in the dark.” ― Alexandra Sirowy
56. “The good and the bad never existed in this world as standalone features. They were always bound together.” ― Tamuna Tsertsvadze
57. “The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.” ― Raul Ramos y Sanchez
58. “The light within us gives power for good actions.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
59. “The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” ― Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
60. “The problem in today’s world is that people lack trust in goodness.” ― Amit Abraham
61. “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.” ― J.D. Stimpson
62. “There is more good than evil in the world, but you know, you still got to work at it.” ― Lasky Kathryn
Short Inspiring Good And Evil Quotes
63. “There is no denying that it is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness.” ― Idowu Koyenikan
64. “There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.” ― J.K. Rowling
65. “There is no good or evil in light, or darkness. It does not exist. If there is justice in this world, it may well lie in love, and naught else.” ― Hiro Mashima
66. “There’s only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn’t get to be the good guy.” ― Joe Hill, Horns
67. “Think of all that a single person can do. All the indescribable good. All the unspeakable evil.” ― Marie Lu, Steelstriker
68. “Those who won’t accept evil never get anything good.” ― August Strindberg
69. “To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.” ― Dōgen
70. “Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.” ― Benjamin Franklin
71. “We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I’m pleased to be in the light.” ― Neal Shusterman
72. “When faced with pain and evil, we have to make a choice. We can choose to be taken by evil. Or we can try to embrace the good.” ― Elizabeth Smart
73. “When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know it is dead wrong.” ― Billy Graham
74. “Whether a character is good or evil depends on your perspective.” ― Steve Jones Snr
75. “You think that your laws correct evil – they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil – by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.” ― Leo Tolstoy
76. “Good’ did not triumph. ‘Evil’ did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other, and created new ‘evils’, new ‘goods’ which slew each other in their turn.” ― Eric Ambler, Epitaph for a Spy
77. “Goodness is funny because it draws you to it while curiously possessing you with the untrammeled desire to turn it into something bad.” ― Sophie Villalobos
78. “Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.” ― John Connolly
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