No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for what might be very good reasons. They make choice after choice, and none of them is slaughtering roomfuls of saints, or murdering hundreds of baby seals, or rubber-room irrational. But it adds up. And then one day they look around and realized that they're so far over the line that they can't remember where it was.
Jim ButcherTag: evil good-and-evil villains dresden-files bad-guys
You see we do, yet see you but our hands
And this the bleeding business they have done:
Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful
Tag: good-and-evil
Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.
August StrindbergTag: life-lessons good-and-evil
I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous. I was gloomy--other children were merry and talkative. I felt myself superior to them--but was considered inferior: I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world--none understood me: and I learned to hate.
Mikhail LermontovTag: hate bullying good-and-evil
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
C.S. LewisTag: inspiration christianity faith good uniqueness good-and-evil
I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.
Stacey T. HuntTag: life inspirational love beauty death goodness live secrets good save goodbye safe good-and-evil beautiful want saved found something find crown tell saved-souls cascade crowns save-me save-the-world saved-my-life told
The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.
Raul Ramos y SanchezTag: bureaucracy good-and-evil
It's going to be like an...aura, I guess."
He looked down at me and raised an eyebrow. "Explain?"
"Like even though there are outside forces pushing through the walls, in here it's like a bubble of goodness. Like coming home."
I could feel him smiling and it encouraged me to elaborate. "When I think of how others would see it, I imagine them seeing a force of goodness overshadowing a force of evil, protecting it.
Tag: good-and-evil jessica-shirvington the-violet-eden-chapters violet-eden lincoln-wood
So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. The dragons are dangerous, yes. They can do harm, yes. But they're not evil. They're beneath our morality, if you will, like any animal. Or beyond it. They have nothing to do with it.
We must choose and choose again. The animals need only be and do. We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom...
Tag: animals choice morality good-and-evil
To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.
DōgenTag: zen good-and-evil let-go buddha-way
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