“Ellie: "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil."Richard: "Good will triumph over evil."Ellie: "Liar.”
“There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.”
“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.”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
“The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.”
“Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it’s always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil. (Alexion)”