Robert Burton Quotes

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

There is no rational creature which is not capable both of good and evil

The devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left.

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.