This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.
Neal ShustermanTag: life good bad good-and-evil
Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.
Eric AmblerTag: good-and-evil
And those characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity. That too is a great advantage of the folk tale. It is not a failure of imagination to see the sky blue. It is a failure rather to be weary of its being blue- and not to notice how blue it is. And appreciation of the subtler colors of the sky will come later. In the folk tale, good is good and evil is evil, and the former will triumph and later will fail. This is not the result of the imaginative quest. It is rather its principle and foundation. It is what will enable the child later on to understand Macbeth, or Don Quixote, or David Copperfield.
Anthony EsolenTag: fairy-tales good-and-evil anthony-esolen
You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.
David HewsonTag: life self good-and-evil
Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.
Terry PratchettTag: inspirational good-and-evil life-philosophy terry-pratchett night-watch
I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
Terry PratchettTag: politics cynicism idealism good-and-evil vetinari
Das Negative zu tun, ist uns noch auferlegt, das Positive ist uns schon gegeben.
Franz KafkaTag: philosophy good-and-evil philosophy-of-life german
Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube.
Franz KafkaTag: philosophy good-and-evil philosophy-of-life german
War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.
Ursula K. Le GuinTag: life ethics morals war conflict good-and-evil
When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
Arrived at the mountain-top
He cried: "Woe to my knowledge!
I intended to see good white lands
And bad black lands—
But the scene is grey.
Tag: wisdom knowledge morality black good-and-evil white black-and-white grey gray
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