Richard M. Weaver Quotes

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

The failure to readily identify the battle between good and evil is a nagging, ongoing, dangerous pattern that shows no sign of easing up any time soon.

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'

Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!

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

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

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

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains…an unuprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.

The true knowledge of good and evil arouses disturbances of the mind

If this isn’t good versus evil, what is?

The best men are not consistent in good--why should the worst men be consistent in evil?

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.

I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?