ethical dichotomy Quotes

The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the opposites. . . . It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit's task and charge to reconcile and reunite the opposites in the human individual through a special development of the human soul.

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.

There’s only truth and not truth. You’re either very good or evil.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

There are good characters and bad characters.

So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.

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.

For so great is the difference between just and unjust, that it is visible even in the lifeless image of it. For what order will be left in the world, if these opposites be confounded together? Such a distinction as this, therefore, between virtuous and vicious actions, has not only been engraven by the Lord in the heart of every man, but has also been frequently confirmed by his providential dispensations.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.