Plato Quotes

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for 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.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

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

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

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

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

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.