Busta Rhymes Quotes

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

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

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Personally, I prefer the dark side.

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

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.

Where there is a hero, there is always a villain.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

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.

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons.

This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.

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

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.

I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

There has always been a battle between good and evil.