Quotes and Sayings about Good & Evil

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

Voldemort / Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Power

For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare in Hamlet

Thinking

So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

Markus Zusak in The Book Thief

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein

The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of good people.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Even the most beautiful butterfly becomes a beast in the cage full of hyenas

Butterflies

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Revolution Motivation

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

We are all evil in some form or another, are we not?

Richard Ramirez

It's tempting to see your enemies as evil, all of them. But it's good and evil on both sides in every war ever fought.

Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones - Season 4 Episode 7

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Hilaire Belloc

Shadows

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Pierre Corneille

Happiness Perfection

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Thomas Aquinas

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Francis Bacon

Light Darkness

Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.

Solas in Dragon Age - Inquisition

War

It was that night I discovered that most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely, and lacking in social niceties.

Edward Bloom in Big Fish

Evil does not sleep, Elrond. It waits. And in the moment of our complacency, it blinds us.

Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 Episode 1

"Now there are five rules that separate Good from Evil," the gnome said, and wrote them in air with his smoking staff.
"1. The Evil attack. The Good defend.
2. The Evil punish. The Good forgive.
3. The Evil hurt. The Good help.
4. The Evil take. The Good give.
5. The Evil hate. The Good love."

Soman Chainani in The School for Good and Evil

Sometimes I wonder if we're all born with equal amounts of good and evil. What if no one person is more or less malevolent than another, and that we all just release our bad at different times, in different ways?

Colleen Hoover in Reminders of Him

"Good men don't become legends," he said quietly.
"Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway."

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension

No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

Maisie Williams

You see the world as a child does. "Good" and "evil" are not constants.

Black Adam in Injustice

I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.

Nelly Furtado

It's troublesome if the villain doesn't show their evil. Villains are necessary to make knights into heroes.

Helbram in The Seven Deadly Sins

Knights

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Role Models

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

Eli Roth

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It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Character Decisions

Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Decisions Morality

It is our choices that makes us who we are, and we always have a choice to do what's right.

Peter Parker in Spider-Man

Decisions Morality

You can never make the same mistake twice. Because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choise.

Failures & Mistakes Decisions

We've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Morality

A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to.

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Brisingr

Warriors Morality

I have experimented; I have pushed the boundaries of magic further, perhaps, than they have ever been pushed.

Voldemort / Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Dreaming

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

Uncle Ben in Spider-Man

Power Responsibility Strength

For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do, that dares love attempt.

William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet

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There are more things in Heaven and Earth
Than are dream't of in your Philosophy

William Shakespeare in Hamlet

Education School

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

Hikaru Nakamura

Thinking Chess

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

Markus Zusak in The Book Thief

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

Markus Zusak in The Book Thief

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

Reason & Sanity Imagination

Take your time to think, but when it is time to act, stop thinking and act!

Napoléon Bonaparte

Thinking Taking action

I don't believe in fate. I believe we have more control than we think and that every action has a reaction. After all, the most minor event, even a butterfly flapping its wings, can change everything.

J.D. in Scrubs - Season 3 Episode 16

Butterflies

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Edmund Burke

Revolution

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Power Revolution

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Courage Motivation

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Leonard Cohen

Taking action Motivation

Even psychopaths have emotions. Then again, maybe not.

Richard Ramirez - August 2013

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Hilaire Belloc

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