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Good and evil9 quotes
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 · 1979If 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 · 1973All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them. — Brandon · 1948There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distill it out. — William Shakespeare · 1599If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677All 9 quotes →Human nature4 quotes
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 · 1979All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. — Apostle Paul · 56Duality of man2 quotes
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 · 1973All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886Morality2 quotes
Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them. — Brandon · 1948Woe 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 BCFreedom1 quote
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Middle class values1 quote
Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them. — Brandon · 1948Moral confusion1 quote
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 BCOcean and sea1 quote
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. — George Fox · 1647Right and wrong1 quote
Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them. — Brandon · 1948Sin1 quote
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. — Apostle Paul · 56Vietnam War1 quote
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 · 1979Yin and yang1 quote
There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distill it out. — William Shakespeare · 1599