George Orwell Quotes

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse.

If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

He has a spirit-a soul- and therfore a choice. I will belive that Aurox will chose Light, even if Darkness resides within him. None of us is entirely good. Or evil.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

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

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.

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

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.