Good and Evil Quotes That Will Cause You To Think

15 Good and Evil Quotes
made by various people throughout history

1. The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. ~ by Albert Einstein
   
   
2. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men and women to do nothing. ~ by Edmund Burke
   
   
3. Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings. ~ by Helen Keller
   
   
4. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ~ by Henry David Thoreau
   
   
5. He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done. ~ by Leonardo Da Vinci
   
   
6. At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. ~ by Aldous Huxley
   
   
7. How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. ~ by Barry Lopez
   
   
8. The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. ~ by Cicero
   
   
9. But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil. ~ by Robert Heinlein
   
   
10. Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
    
    
11. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ~ by Hannah Arendt
    
    
12. The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ~ by Joseph Conrad
    
    
13. If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them. ~ by Mohandas Ghandi
    
    
14. Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty. ~ by Paramahansa Yoganada
    
    
15. All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. ~ by Scott Alexander

BONUS

We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too. ~ by Mairead Maguire

BONUS BONUS

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.