Steven Brust Quotes

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

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.

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

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.