If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance. Anthony Hopkins
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. Jacob Bronowski
What if evil doesn’t really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except our own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices? Libba Bray, Rebel Angels
Being against evil doesn’t make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide ... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you’re fighting. Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream
Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I’m sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same. Keith Haring, Keith Haring Journals
Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there’s no turning back from science. Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands till they have lost it. Sophocles
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Stephen Grellet, French missionary, attributed & disputed
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. Psalms 34:13&14
Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. Psalms 37:27
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Psalms 53:1-3
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee. Proverbs 3:27&28
An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. Proverbs 17:11&13
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. Ecclesiastes 7:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20
And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God. Mark 10:17&18
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Romans 3:10-12
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28
They ask thee, (O Muhammad), what they shall spend. Say: that which ye spend for good (must go) to parents and near kindred and orphans and the needy and the wayfarer. And whatsoever good ye do, lo! Allah is Aware of it. Koran 2:215
I want to be good. Dorian Gray 2009 starring Ben Barnes & Colin Firth & Ben Chaplin & Rachel Hurd-Wood & Johnny Harris & Rebecca Hall & Emilia Fox & Fiona Shaw & Maryan d’Abo & Caoline Goodall et al, director Oliver Parker
79,067. And leave us leisure to be good. Thomas Gray, Hymn, Adversity III
I wish I was a good man. Alan Bleasdale, GBH II: Only Here on a Message, starring Robert Lindsay & Lindsay Duncan & Michael Palin & Julie Walters & Tom Georgeson & Andrew Schofield & Jane Danson & David Ross et al, director Robert Young, Michael to Franky, Channel 4 1999
I’ve done good by you, haven’t I? The Soloist 2009 starring Jamie Foxx & Robert Downey junior & Catherine Keener & Tom Hollander & Lisa Gay Hamilton & Nelsan Ellis & Rachael Harris & Stephen ROot & Lorraine Toussaint & Justin Martin & Octavia Spencer & Jena Malone & Lemon Anderson et al, director Joe Wright, Downey to Foxx
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. Henry David Thoreau
Terrible is the temptation to be good. Bertolt Brecht
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’m good … I mean my knee is a little sore from jogging yesterday … in the process of losing my dreams … I had one too many beers last night … and discouraged of where my life is at … not knowing what to do … are we already in the apocalypse … a world run by lunatics … obesity and starvation … too busy paying off my student loans … JoyCamp: I’m Good
Do you remember when we could tell the good guys from the bad guys? Spy Game 2001 starring Robert Redford & Brad Pitt & Catherine McCormack & Stephen Dillane & Larry Bryggman & Marianne Jean-Baptiste & Ken Leung & David Hemmings & Michael Paul Chan & Garrick Hagon & Andrew Grainger, director Tony Scott, Redford
Whenever I do a good thing, innocent people get hurt. Peaky Blinders s5e6: The Shock, BBC 2019
What is the ultimate purpose of government if it isn’t for doing good? Yes, Minister s3e6: The Whisky Priest, Jim to Sir Humphrey, with Bernard, BBC 2003
They’re only truly great who are truly good. George Chapman, 1559-1634
That which is good for the society is not necessarily good for the individual. That which is good for the individual is good for the society. Richard Diaz
True information does good. Julian Assange