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Good And Evil Quotes

Quotes on the timeless struggle between good and evil in stories and life.

These quotes explore good and evil as a storytelling device, noting how both video games and professional wrestling build narratives around the same core struggle. Another quote observes that even the crudest novel expresses the author's ideas about it.

Videogames tell stories on good and evil, and so does the WWE, so that's the core of both things.

Quotes by Xavier Woods

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

Quotes by Steven Saylor

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

Quotes by Sam Mendes

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Always Quotes

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Quotes by Richard John Neuhaus

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Quotes by Philip Zimbardo

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

Quotes by Origen

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Quotes by Maria Montessori

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Believe Quotes

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

Quotes by Lotte Verbeek

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

Quotes by Lin-Manuel Miranda

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

Quotes by Joe Mantegna

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle...

Quotes by Immanuel Kant

This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.

Quotes by Howard Dean

Enemy Quotes

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Quotes by Edmund Burke

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

Quotes by Charles Van Doren

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Quotes by Benjamin Whichcote

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Quotes by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

Quotes by Antonia Fraser

Evil Quotes

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

Quotes by Anatole France

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Frequently Asked Questions

What do the "Good And Evil" quotes cover?
They look at how good and evil show up in storytelling — video games, novels, wrestling narratives — and in a child's earliest moral understanding.
Why do people search for "good and evil" quotes?
The theme is central to nearly every story and moral discussion, so people look here for concise ways to talk about right and wrong in fiction or real life.
What does the quote about videogames and WWE mean?
It compares professional wrestling storylines to videogame narratives, arguing both build their drama around a clear struggle between good and Evil.
What does the quote about novels and the author's fears say?
It suggests that even a poorly written novel still reveals its author's underlying hopes, fears, and beliefs about morality, making it a window into their worldview.
What does the quote about a child's first moral idea mean?
It claims that distinguishing good from evil is the very first concept a child needs to grasp, framing it as foundational to all later moral development.

A simpler line reduces the theme to cops and robbers, while another traces the idea back to childhood, calling it the first difference a child must learn. See Evil and Believe quotes.