Hannah Arendt Quotes

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

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.

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

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

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.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

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

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

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

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

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.

I feel that a world in which you only see what you want to see is incomplete. And as a game creator, I am only here to prepare a game that will expand the breadth of your thinking, and leave the decision between good and evil up to the players.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.