Amelie Nothomb Quotes

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

Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

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 .

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

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.

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

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

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

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.

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

Even people that are evil believe what they're doing is good. I don't agree with those people, but it's about understanding that there are those kinds of points of view.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

Evil to some is always good to others

I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.