Orson Scott Card Quotes

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

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.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

The better day, the worse deed.

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

Good land, evill way.

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

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

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions.

You just have to do what you know is right.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

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

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

No one may do evil that good may come.