If good men pretend to be villains, how is anybody supposed to know the difference between them?

We’ve heard them all talk about Dust, and they’re so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed them, even though we could see that what they were doing was wicked and evil and...

Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.

To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to...

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference…

Active evil is better than passive good

You see we do, yet see you but our handsAnd this the bleeding business they have done:Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness...

Only very few people can remain unruffled by trouble.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. My novels are epic fantasy, but they are inspired by and grounded in history. Rape and sexual violence have been a part of every war ever...

Conquer evil with good deeds.

What if evil doesn’t really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and...

Others are not born bad or good… and neither are people, by the way.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Those who won’t accept evil never get anything good.

Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I’d been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go...

The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being...

One thing yo learn when you’ve lived as long as I have-people aren’t all good, and people aren’t all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now,...

Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn’t fail to devastate in its time.

To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for...

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?

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

The question isn’t whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?

No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for...

Do something: be it good or evil, if they ask why you did it, tell them you’re different.

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.

Good does not exist.It is merely an absent of evil.

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...

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

Light and dark ain’t supposed to mix. They’re like broccoli and chocolate – just nasty when you put them together – but that appears to be what’s happening with you

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source...

If 9 out of 10 grandmothers selected from 10 respective cultures can agree it is evil, then it’s evil. Cut it out.

Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe–his courage no more than a reflex to danger, like the automatic jump at the pin-prick. Perhaps there were no virtues,...

The key to a good life is to balance the good and evil rather than trying to get rid of all evils because if you get rid of all your evils, you would also lose...

Sully disapproved of destruction for destruction’s sake, which seemed ever more popular in the modern world, but he always took delight in burning out or otherwise eliminating Evil when Evil just couldn’t keep its ugly...

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.

The light within us gives power for good actions.

Perante o seu moment neo des nimo, a mãe encheu uma panela com água e deu-lhe nove ocos. Disse: «Põe os ovos, um a um, dentro de água, com cuidado para não se partirem. Os...

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.

I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.

Their quarry had been cornered in his defenses and their bloodlust was such that they were likely to pay top Julep to watch him escape, so that he might be brutalized and killed before their...

It’s a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

Some energies are not as potent. The only way to develop a potent energy is to spend an existence on the earth. There, one can develop a compassionate nature so that when passing onto other...

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain’t so.

There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must...

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can...