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Evil doesn't have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.
Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will
Evil and Good are things in their own essebce and not made good or evil by the giver. but if he gives you good so cal him; if evil springs from him, do not name it mine till ye know better its true fount
-Lucifer
Good is whichever side you think you are on, and evil is whichever side you are fighting, or running from.
Evil is real but its opposite, Goodness, is also real. And, thank God, it too is contagious.
Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.
I think evil is very relative.
Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.
Evil triumphs when good men refuse to call it evil
There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.
When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know it is dead wrong.
Evil has only the power we give it.
Evil's a thing of the mind. We humans got the full measure of it ourselves.
Is that right? Are you evil, Sarah Mary?
I ain't good.
Evil be he who thinketh evil.
Evil is a point of view.
Evil has only the power that we give it.
I do believe quite strongly in evil.
In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.
Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.
My definition of evil is unfriendliness
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.
There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.
The powers which enable evil to carry on are powers given it by goodness. All the things which enable a bad man to be effectively bad are in themselves good things - resolution, cleverness, good looks, existence itself.
There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes the things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it's always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil.
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.
There is no evil. There is no good. There is only life, and the absence of life.
Evil is the absence of God.
Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.
Evil's when you push your agenda over someone else's. When you assert your beliefs over somebody's contrary beliefs. That's evil.
The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.
The evil that we know is best.
There is a little good in all evil.
The only evil is that I don't mind that it happened.
Good and Evil are names for what people do, not for what they are ... stopped believing there was a power of good and evil. That they were outside of us ... People are too complicated for labels.
Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.
Evil is just a point of view
Evil is a superficial manifestation of a deep disturbance and imbalance in our collective psyche. The only way for us to help heal the wounds is to be sober, sane, quiet, loving, and attentive to each other.
Active evil is better than passive good
There is a constant struggle between good an evil in the world. It is up to good people to choose the right side
Evil is a moral judgment,
Evil is just the uncontrolled flow of power.
Evil is just . . . so harsh. I prefer ethically unfettered.
Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide ... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.
Before you think good or evil, who are you?
Evil is ignorance.
Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success.
There is no good and evil, only black and white. But either black or white on its own is boring, Jenny. If you mix them you get so many colors - so many colors ...
Evil is of the devil.
The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?
When evil smiles at you, you smile back.
A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.
I'm not evil, I'm just very creative
Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
Evil to some is always good to others
Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.
Bad things happen because we live in a world with evil.
Evil is maybe lying to God.
Or better, lying to love.
Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.
Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.
There is no possible source of evil except good.
Evil done in the name of good. Evil done in the name of evil. Which is worse?
Good people can't imagine evil. It catches us by surprise, and it always will.
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
There is no objective and universally acceptable definition of good and evil. And until we have one, we will go on justifying our own actions, while condemning the actions of the others.
Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.
Those who don't hate evil hate those who do
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Love me...I am not evil.
Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us.
Do not return evil for evil
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of "evil": the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it.
Evil prevails when the Good do nothing.
Evil is not an abstract concept. It lives. It has a form. It stalks. It is too real.
There's real evil, Mr Honey. Not that existential crap, either.
Evil does not listen to reason.
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good? ...
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
We can trace the operation of evil in the physical world ... but I am more and more puzzled about it in the moral world. There its course is often so very obscure; and often it seems to involve, so far as we can see, no penalty whatsoever.
Good has become bastardized, made to look evil by evil claiming to be good until both good and evil are lost in the mix."
Griffin, Of Good And Evil
I don't really believe in evil at all.Evil-- Ian Mcewan
Evil can do anything, for a price.
In the world, there is no absolute good, and absolute evil.
Evil is a cluster of well orchestrated blind spots. When it manifests itself to excess, we protest and want the blind spots that both produce it and conceal it back, and fast.
Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.