Billy Graham Quotes

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be either good or evil.

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.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

Most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people.

What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

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

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

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

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.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

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

I don't really believe in evil at all.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.