Robert Jordan Quotes

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

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world 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.

I don't know how to play evil.

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 .

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.

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

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

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.

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.

I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

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!

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.