Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. Auden
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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good
W. H. AUDEN Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good....
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Evil cannot prevail over good. How much more can we take?
KATHY VALENTINE In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me...
W. H. AUDEN 4-H is wider than you can imagine,
LINDA KING Money is neither good nor evil,but good men makes money good & evil men makes money evil.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ...
W. H. AUDEN A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it
WILLIAM PENN A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a litt...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN Good and evil are so completely entwined any action can be good or evil.
JIM GENOVESE ... a total being who can do many different things - think, fight, remember, love, anticipate, copul...
ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
MORRIS RAPHAEL COHEN If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good
MORRIS COHEN With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good peopl...
STEVEN WEINBERG Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmute...
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MAX WEBER Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
BIBLE Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
BIBLE Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.
CHINESE PROVERB We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, b...
CESARE PAVESE Good to evil seems evil
RAY BRADBURY With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th...
STEVEN WEINBERG One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKE This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.
HOWARD DEAN We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
CATO THE ELDER No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY There is no one who is completely evil as to lack some goodness in him.
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We can overcome evil with greater good.
LAURA BUSH Evil surrounding can destroy a Good soul.
UDAYVEER SINGH Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world...
WALTER LANG Its where my demons hide.
IMAGINE DRAGONS But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn't exist, and w...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim...
GREGORY MAGUIRE The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I ...
HAYAO MIYAZAKI Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
ANNE RICE Evil and good are Siamese twins, bound at the hip.
JIM GENOVESE Whether it is good or evil,man has the power to bring it to pass,once he commits his thoughts into w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The darkness of evil can never overshadow the light of God.
JAIME CONTRERAS The different good people are different in their many ways. The different evil people appearing diff...
APURVA GAGLANI All good and all evil comes from within us, as does our projection of it onto people, places, and th...
JIM GENOVESE Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...
JASPER FFORDE If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?
PATRICIA BRIGGS No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
WILLIAM BLAKE War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
TED NUGENT The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by...
JEFF COOPER In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic...
WILLIAM BERNBACH Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and ...
STEVEN WEINBERG There’s good and evil on both sides and good and evil on our insides…
KEN O. ELDIB I don't think good and evil are polarized.
SAM MENDES You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
JIM BUTCHER Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and...
NORA ROBERTS Be the good in others, and you will see the good in others. Be the evil in others and you will see t...
PHILIP T. M. We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN There is evil in everybody. But never let the evil in you overpower the good in you.
OLASOT There are two evil futurities and one good. A miserable future existence is evil; and annihilation, ...
ADONIRAM JUDSON But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder...
RICK RIORDAN Be the good in the world, and you will see the good in the world. Be the evil in the world and you w...
PHILIP T. M. Evil becomes good to the conscience that is immuned to evil.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and...
ISOBELLE CARMODY In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the e...
WILLIAM BERNBACH Man is meant for good but designed for evil.
RAHEEL FAROOQ Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
JOHN CONNOLLY Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO My friends, if there is one gift in my omniscience, it’s the knowledge I have of just how much goo...
SEAN PATRICK BRENNAN If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be w...
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY Good at the wrong place and time becomes evil; evil in the right place and time becomes good.
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.
BIBLE To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
CLAUDIUS There cannot be greater wrong than to never know the evil and good of love in life.
SORIN CERIN Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.
MARK TWAIN it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often th...
MAX WEBER Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]
GEORGE HERBERT Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.
MICHAEL VENTURA There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each ind...
PAULO COELHO Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.
EDWARD ABBEY What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows ...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV When given the choice amongst the Lesser of Two Evils, choose the Greater of All Goods.
J.J. BOWLERS Evil people rely on the acquiescence of naive good people to allow them to continue with their evil.
STUART AKEN We sat on the dusty floor like that for what felt like hours, our legs intertwined in the kneeling p...
RACHAEL WADE There is an old illusion-it is called good and evil.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Good and evil are the key elements that make a human.
ROSA M. BETANCES No amount of cancer is good for a body nor evil for a soul.
TROY J. GAINEY All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.
CARLTON SMITH Every country in life is a battle field between the good & the evil forces.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To see evil and do nothing is evil.
JIM GENOVESE You can't correct the past evils, because you can't change the past. What you can do is learn from t...
JIM GENOVESE What changes the balance between good and evil? Your actions.
JIM GENOVESE All good comes from following God, and all evil comes from not.
JIM GENOVESE It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
L.M. MONTGOMERY He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getti...
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W. H. AUDEN Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. AUDEN We would rather be ruined than changed, We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the...
W. H. AUDEN Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say
W. H. AUDEN Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of...
W. H. AUDEN Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs ...
W. H. AUDEN But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime:'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conq...
W. H. AUDEN It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfish...
W. H. AUDEN Pleasure is by no means an infallible guide, but it is the least fallible.
W. H. AUDEN Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years. . . today...
W. H. AUDEN Thou shalt not sit With statisticians nor commit A social science
W. H. AUDEN In the nightmare of the dark - All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each seques...
W. H. AUDEN Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings.
W. H. AUDEN When it comes, will it come without warning/ Just as I'm picking my nose?/ Will it knock on my door ...
W. H. AUDEN Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.
W. H. AUDEN If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willful...
W. H. AUDEN All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will...
W. H. AUDEN Few writers have had less journalistic talent than James, and this is his defect, for the supreme ma...
W. H. AUDEN For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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