Ian Fleming Quotes

For good is simple, evil manifold.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

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.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

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.

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.

Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.

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

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

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

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

In the end, I think people prefer the good to win rather than the bad.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.