Balance of Good and Evil Quotes

Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates.

I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

We all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying—every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf, who is made up of love, kindness, respect, decency, compassion, and all the things that are good in life. The black wolf is born of jealousy, hatred, pettiness, prejudice, vindictiveness, and all the poisons of the human personality. The two constantly war with each other for dominance. And one day, one wolf will overtake and devour the other.” - Acheron

And out of good still to find means of evil.

We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?

God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

When too perfect, lieber Gott böse.

...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?

It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.