Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."
Good And Evil quotes
Good And Evil
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher, Writer, Composer
"By doing good we become good."
Baltasar Gracian
Philosopher, Writer
"Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad."
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"When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil."
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"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."
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"The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil."
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"We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration."
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"Power always brings with it responsibility."
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"What millions died that Caesar might be great!"
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"In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil."
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"I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough."
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"This is a struggle between good and evil and we're the good?"
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