Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Where there is no Jesus, evil always reigns.

When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.

Evil perpetually tends to disappear.

You could say that evil is contagious in that we have this mesmerizing mentor in Uncle Charlie who comes into your life. Every person has a seed of evil inside them, and when you come across such a mesmerizing mentor, he is able to successfully turn it into a flower of evil.

Fighting evil, it's hard work.

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity

The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight-How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!

The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of our own being.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

Those of you who love the Lord should hate evil

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

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

Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

To fight evil is to fight ourselves.

There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.

There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.

But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?

God may have created the world in six days, but while he was resting on the seventh, Beelzebub popped up and did this place.

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.