Nadine Gordimer Quotes

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

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

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

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

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

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

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

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

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.

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.

Courage without compassion can wreak havoc on our civilization.

The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.

Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.

You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it's a hard decision, but as a country, as a nation, people need our help.

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.