T. S. Eliot Quotes

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

Historically, means cannot be separated from ends.

The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people.

The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

With each of the choices that we make, we create consequences and we ourselves experience those consequences. If you harm another soul. If you cause pain or trauma in another soul, you yourself will experience that trauma.

Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that I will fall heir.