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In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.


William Bernbach

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WILLIAM BERNBACH Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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PHILIP T. M. It doesnt matter how good you are,if you re a champion,good will never be enough!
RAJA We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN Money is neither good nor evil,but good men makes money good & evil men makes money evil.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. AUDEN Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good
W. H. AUDEN He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getti...
MACHADO DE ASSIS All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
T.S. ELIOT Find good in what the world says is evil.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
SAINT AUGUSTINE God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary go...
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OLASOT Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hop...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS He has a real good drive and he just has a real good ear for things.
BILL MARCKS You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN The most perplexing form of evil, and especially so for all idealists, is that kind of evil which co...
WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON Expectations are a good thing to have!!! But when someone doesnt live up to yours it shouldnt be wha...
HEATHER MONTANO Good fortune and evil fortune come to all things alike in this world of time.
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CHINESE PROVERB to disagree one doesnt have to be disagreeable
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HERMAN HESSE Good at the wrong place and time becomes evil; evil in the right place and time becomes good.
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OLASOT What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
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MENCIUS One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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T.H. WHITE You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.
Yet you are not evil when y...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good....
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, ...
DEYTH BANGER If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing.
GENEREUX PHILIP just because theres a goalie, doesnt mean you cant score
BRADLEY ADAM HENDERSON We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted ...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of ...
CALEB CUSHING Putting a tiger in a lions den doesnt make it any less dangerous
BRANDON BROCK In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the...
DINESH D'SOUZA There is no one who is completely evil as to lack some goodness in him.
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Life's irony;What a miserable world we live in,for the good men who know how to govern well do nothi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the oppos...
MAX WEBER As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indist...
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indisti...
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indisti...
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but w...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn't exist, and w...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim...
GREGORY MAGUIRE The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I ...
HAYAO MIYAZAKI Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
ANNE RICE Evil and good are Siamese twins, bound at the hip.
JIM GENOVESE Whether it is good or evil,man has the power to bring it to pass,once he commits his thoughts into w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The darkness of evil can never overshadow the light of God.
JAIME CONTRERAS The different good people are different in their many ways. The different evil people appearing diff...
APURVA GAGLANI All good and all evil comes from within us, as does our projection of it onto people, places, and th...
JIM GENOVESE Good and evil are so completely entwined any action can be good or evil.
JIM GENOVESE Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...
JASPER FFORDE If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?
PATRICIA BRIGGS A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left.
ASHISH KUMAR Evil becomes good to the conscience that is immuned to evil.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is go...
MICHAEL O'BRIEN But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder...
RICK RIORDAN What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
ABU BAKAR BASHIR I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.
ADMIRAL FREDERICK I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.
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RAKSHAN BHANDARY If it doesnt help, I damned sure dont know what will.
JACK MOORE War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
TED NUGENT Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and...
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BRUCE LIETZKE Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and ...
STEVEN WEINBERG Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.
MARK TWAIN There’s good and evil on both sides and good and evil on our insides…
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WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circul...
WILLIAM ZINSSER Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
WILLIAM ZINSSER Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE