Good and Evil Quotes
Shakespeare, Kurt Vonnegut, Eric Hoffer, Cicero and Seneca lead. Tolstoy, in The First Step (1892), says that to be good and lead a good life means to give others more than one takes from them. Eleanor Farjeon, in two books from the early 1920s, makes a better joke of it: it is no use crying over spilt evils, it is better to mop them up laughing.
The line about fighting monsters and gazing into the abyss is credited to Mark Twain and marked misattributed. The notes give a German text and a modern translation, which is the Nietzsche version. The “pass through this world but once” passage, credited to Stephen Grellet, is disputed, and a passage on living for something, credited to Thomas Chalmers, is flagged misattributed.
Most quoted on good and evil:
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
The prevalence of evil is the darkest and most frightening mystery of the universe.
A man’s word must be as good as an oath sworn beneath the Light or it was no good at all.
This evil nation has smeared fag feces blended with fag semen and dyke feces on the Bible!"
The deeds of conquest and omnipotence have a sameness, as does the exposition of most evil.
Evil is thou', and the worst evil is thou', which thou knowest it not.