Adam Hamilton Quotes

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

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

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

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.

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

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

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be either good or evil.

The more...we consider man to be free, the less we can say, that he can neglect to use reason, or choose evil in preference to good

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

I'm not an evil person. Nobody's really evil.

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

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

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

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.