Good Quotes

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.

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

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

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

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.

I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California. It hasn't always gone that well.

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.