Carl Jung Quotes

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.

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

Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

I think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good.

I'm a religious, spiritual person, but if there is good in the world, there must be evil, too.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Return good for good; return evil with justice.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.