Jodi Picoult Quotes

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

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

There's a lot more people that enjoy me playing the enforcer, the destroyer. If bad disappears one day, then good goes out of business.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.

They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.

If I believe the good, then I have to believe the bad.

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.

So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

When everyone sees good, then bad exists.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.

What is and what is not create each other.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.