Herbert Spencer Quotes

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

The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

Evil requires no reason.

How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.

The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight-How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

Those of you who love the Lord should hate evil

Where there is no Jesus, evil always reigns.

Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

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.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

To fight evil is to fight ourselves.

Being evil is something that only humans are capable of.

There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.

Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.

The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.

But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.

Evil cannot be accommodated. It must be defeated.