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Topic·Good and evil✕clear

Film · Psychological drama (film) · War (film) · Psychological drama · War

In this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. 'Cause there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil, and good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have one. Walt Kurtz has reached his and very obviously, he has gone insane.

General R. Corman

Apocalypse Now · 1979

★ 6.0

Political literature · Historical literature

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago · 1973

★ 6.0

Novella · Science fiction

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · 1886

★ 3.8

Psychological thriller (film) · Thriller (film) · Psychological thriller · Thriller

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

Rope · 1948

★ 3.5

Play · History (play)

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

William Shakespeare

Henry V · 1599

★ 2.1

Philosophical literature

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

1677

★ 2.0

Personal journal

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

1647

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

Romans 7:19 · 56

★ 1.8

Scripture · Religious literature

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20

681 BC

★ 1.2