Patricia Briggs Quotes

Good and evil lay side by side.

Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.

Evil to some is always good to others

The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

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

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

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

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

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

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!

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

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

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains…an unuprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

If this isn’t good versus evil, what is?

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.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.