52 Inspiring Good Vs Evil Quotes

In the timeless battle between good and evil, words have held the power to inspire, motivate, and ignite a sense of purpose within us. Throughout literature, cinema, and history, the dichotomy of good versus evil has been a wellspring for some of the most profound and stirring quotes known to humanity. These words capture the struggle, the resilience, and the triumph inherent in the human spirit. In this curated collection, we explore 52 inspiring quotes that delve into this eternal conflict, offering insights and encouragement in the face of moral challenges. Whether you are seeking motivation to conquer personal battles or looking for wisdom to navigate complex moral landscapes, these quotes will serve as a guiding light on your journey.

1. “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2. “I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.” - Charles Dickens

3. “No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the Iliad. Good and evil do not exist.” - Julian Jaynes

4. “I hope you haven't given up on the S.Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great many sheep in wolves' clothing. If not for S.Q.'s good nature, we'd never have escaped.” - Trenton Lee Stewart

5. “And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.” - William Faulkner

6. “For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it was a patterned web and one could see the silver pattern when the sun shone upon it. It seemed much frailer than the dark tangle, that had a hideous strength, but it might not be so always, not in the final reckoning.” - Elizabeth Goudge

7. “To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.” - Stephen R. Lawhead

8. “Here dwells a snake, one thousand miles longCoiled, one thousand miles deepEyes like candy, it has eyes like candyHard and blue, but soft as kittens feetOut of sight or in the element of lightIt could be a devil, it could be an angelWith spiders inside a vision from hellIts spine is a vertical screamSlow as concrete, blurred as a dreamFueled by inertia, depth, radius, and velocity,Its soul--a twisted wreckage of despair and painAnd the spiders inside are just praying for rainKilling time killing timeAnd praying for rainOne thousand miles deep” - James O'Barr

9. “Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures.-- from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius” - Author-Poet Aberjhani

10. “Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God” - John Irving

11. “There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.” - Neil Gaiman

12. “Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.” - Kouta Hirano

13. “There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein

14. “Sully disapproved of destruction for destruction's sake, which seemed ever more popular in the modern world, but he always took delight in burning out or otherwise eliminating Evil when Evil just couldn't keep its ugly head down and stay in the shadows, when it came right at you with all teeth bared. The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.” - Dean Koontz

15. “Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.” - Elisabeth Elliot

16. “Evil forges a tornado.But goodness battles in a straight line.” - Caris Roane

17. “Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.” - Henryk Sienkiewicz

18. “Maybe it’s not as clear-cut as that. Maybe it’s the very presence of one thing – light or darkness – that necessitates the existence of the other.Think about it, people couldn’t become legendary heroes if they hadn’t first done something to combat darkness. Doctors could do no good if thereweren’t diseases for them to treat.” - Jessica Shirvington

19. “I have one head that wants to be good,And one that wants to be bad.And always, as soon as I get up,One of my heads is sad.” - John Ciardi

20. “In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

21. “Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.” - Sarah J. Maas

22. “... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

23. “We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.” - Neal Shusterman

24. “If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

25. “Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science.” - Carl Sagan

26. “The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...” - E.A. Bucchianeri

27. “Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.” - Terry Pratchett

28. “People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.” - Jim Butcher

29. “And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference...” - Marion Zimmer Bradley

30. “No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for what might be very good reasons. They make choice after choice, and none of them is slaughtering roomfuls of saints, or murdering hundreds of baby seals, or rubber-room irrational. But it adds up. And then one day they look around and realized that they're so far over the line that they can't remember where it was.” - Jim Butcher

31. “Das Negative zu tun, ist uns noch auferlegt, das Positive ist uns schon gegeben.” - Franz Kafka

32. “Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube.” - Franz Kafka

33. “With Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred.” - Melika Dannese Lux

34. “Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.” - Eliezer Yudkowsky

35. “Good to evil seems evil.” - Ray Bradbury

36. “Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.” - C. S. Lewis

37. “Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing in his dream state. He was mad. He entered reality only when he was so busy trying to cope with people that he had no time to distinguish between good and evil. Since people exist only in life, they must devote their time simply to being alive. Life is motion, and motion is concerned with what makes man move—which is ambition, power, pleasure. What time a man can devote to morality, he must take by force from the motion of which he is a part. He is compelled to make choices between good and evil sooner or later, because moral conscience demands that from him in order that he can live with himself tomorrow. His moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.” - William Faulkner

38. “I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.” - Stacey T. Hunt

39. “Perante o seu momentâneo desânimo, a mãe encheu uma panela com água e deu-lhe nove ocos. Disse: «Põe os ovos, um a um, dentro de água, com cuidado para não se partirem. Os que forem ao fundo, estão bons, os que vierem acima, estão estragados.Duarte perguntou se não deveria ser ao contrário: os maus irem ao fundo e os bons nadarem.A mãe riu-se: «Não, os bons vão ao fundo.»” - João Ricardo Pedro

40. “As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.” - Henry David Thoreau

41. “Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.” - Eric Ambler

42. “Good and bad exist always, everywhere” - R. Alan Woods

43. “And those characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity. That too is a great advantage of the folk tale. It is not a failure of imagination to see the sky blue. It is a failure rather to be weary of its being blue- and not to notice how blue it is. And appreciation of the subtler colors of the sky will come later. In the folk tale, good is good and evil is evil, and the former will triumph and later will fail. This is not the result of the imaginative quest. It is rather its principle and foundation. It is what will enable the child later on to understand Macbeth, or Don Quixote, or David Copperfield.” - Anthony Esolen

44. “Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn't fail to devastate in its time.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

45. “You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.” - A.J. Hartley and David Hewson

46. “The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.” - Raul Ramos y Sanchez

47. “So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. The dragons are dangerous, yes. They can do harm, yes. But they're not evil. They're beneath our morality, if you will, like any animal. Or beyond it. They have nothing to do with it. We must choose and choose again. The animals need only be and do. We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom...” - Ursula K. Le Guin

48. “Beware when wrong-doing is called good and right-doing is called evil.” - R. Alan Woods

49. “Deep down, she's a good person, Diana is," Caine said, and sighed. "Deep down, I'm not. But she is.” - Michael Grant

50. “Evil flourishes because the good aren't good enough," see murmured. "And sometimes the good just have bad days.” - K.J. Bishop

51. “It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange...How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

52. “I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.” - Ruth St. Denis