Quotes and Sayings about Good & Evil

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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?

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

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

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

People spend more time talking than thinking.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

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

Even psychopaths have emotions. Then again, maybe not.

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.