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Evil is a form of incompetence.

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.

Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

I have learned a lot about good and evil - they are not always what they appear to be.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Accepting evil is worse than committing evil.

A dragon is a confusion at the heart of things, a law unto himself. He embraces good, evil, and indifference; in his own nature he makes them indivisible and absolute. He knows who he is. Surely you see that... Put it this way. Dragons all love life's finer things- music, art, treasure- the works of the spirit; yet in their personal habits they're foul and bestial- they burn down cathedrals, for instance, and eat maidens- and they see in their whimsical activities no faintest contradiction... Dragons never grow, never change... Believe me, nothing in this world is more despicable than a dragon. They're a walking- or flying- condemnation of all we stand for, all we pray for our children, nay, for ourselves. We struggle to improve ourselves, we tortuously balance on the delicate line between our duties to society and our duties within- our duties to God and our own nature.

All humans are rogues. Cured only by death.

Always look at good side of a man. And forget his faults.

And in the echo of that gladness, horror blooms within me. In its own strange way, it's a horror as deep as any I've experienced so far. I've succeeded in taking another human hostage, in making him urinate on himself. I made a plan to torture someone, and then I carried it out, and it satisfied me to do so. As much hurt and hell as the Wolfman has caused, I don't want to be his judge and jury, his jailer and tormentor. I don't want to be that person. I want to be good. I don't want to fall into a big, black pit of darkness, because what if I can't get out?

And those characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity. That too is a great advantage of the folk tale. It is not a failure of imagination to see the sky blue. It is a failure rather to be weary of its being blue- and not to notice how blue it is. And appreciation of the subtler colors of the sky will come later. In the folk tale, good is good and evil is evil, and the former will triumph and later will fail. This is not the result of the imaginative quest. It is rather its principle and foundation. It is what will enable the child later on to understand Macbeth, or Don Quixote, or David Copperfield.

Any fool can start a religion. And many do.

Any religion that cannot stand up to a modern scientific reasoning, and to rational proof, is asinine

Any silly ism or stupid book that considers men above women, must be shunned like a lowlife demon. For, all's one, barring none.

A person who does not believe in God yet loves everybody is far spiritual a person than all the hate-mongering blind believers of this-that silly ism.

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation.

Accepting evil is worse than committing evil. You must – I repeat – you must, as a human being, stand up on the side of humanism, against barbarian inhumanism, for it is your action, that shall determine whether your children shall live in a world of peace and harmony or a world of chaos and discriminations.

After your daily bread, if you ask God for anything, ask 'him' to make you right in the head.

After you die, a rare friend or family member may carry your memory throughout life. Most will forget you. As if you were never here.

A joyful soul, a grateful spirit full of love and light!

All my seven dogs, who passed away, were great beings - a helluva lot better than most of the silly inhumane bums, mistakenly called human beings.

And He will judge and will forgive all, the good and the evil, the wise and the meek . . . And when He has done with all of them, then He will summon us. ‘You too come forth,’ He will say, ‘Come forth ye drunkards, come forth, ye weak ones, come forth, ye children of shame!’ And we shall all come forth, without shame and shall stand before him. And He will say unto us, ‘Ye are swine, made in the Image of the Beast and with his mark; but come ye also!’ And the wise ones and those of understanding will say, ‘Oh Lord, why dost Thou receive these men?’ And He will say, ‘This is why I receive them, oh ye wise, this is why I receive them, oh ye of understanding, that not one of them believed himself to be worthy of this.’ And He will hold out His hands to us and we shall fall down before him . . . and we shall weep . . . and we shall understand all things! Then we shall understand everything! . . . and all will understand

And how can evil be the mere absence of good? Is genocide the absence of something, of what? Of kindness? Were there no kind Nazis? Of love? Were there no Maoist revolutionaries who loved their families? Evil is an act, we commit evil proactively, it doesn't simply emerge in the absence of good. When you don't put a dollar in the donation tin in the front of the convenience store it doesn't mean that an ax murderer was created. We human beings have one set of actions described as "good" and another set described as "evil.

An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the State, very severely hit by you brutal hooligans, not hit back also? But the new view is to say no. The new view is that we turn the bad into the good. All of which seems to me grossly unjust.

A peaceful atheist is far more spiritual than a hateful believer.

A rascal at any age is a rogue. Till the time he dies of old age.

At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?

At the end, in today's time or in time hence further which you cannot imagine, Mother Nature / God / Karma square off matters. So, you be sure you do that which is good, no matter what. This is all that matters.

As far as you know, and that is not near enough, this is the only life given to you. So, do not screw it up. Do your bit, without harming others. That's godly enough. Just do not dump your shit, especially the religious kind, on others. Thank you.

As per the law of karma, that which is your meat today, this dear beloved animal will make mincemeat of you tomorrow. In another birth.

At last it dawned on me that the differences between us were not really simply because he was Russian and I American. Sure, we were having trouble with cultural differences. But it was our versions of evil that really differed--evil in relation to God and man, not evil in relation to sociology or socialism. Russians and Americans couldn't have been more diametrically opposed in relation to hope and the future. And the Bolshevik Revolution hadn't that much to do with it. But it was just too easy to say the Russian soul was imprinted with the need to suffer. Nor was it true that the American soul was imprinted with an adolescent naïveté causing enthusiasm and optimism to spring eternal.