All Quotes By Tag: Evil

“wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.”

“We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we’re always sick.”

“That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.”

“Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.”

“You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.”

“Don’t ever call me mad, Mycroft. I’m not mad. I’m just … well, differently moraled, that’s all.”

“There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.”

“Well, that’s an evil smile…”

“When people see some things as beautiful,other things become ugly.When people see some things as good,other things become bad.”

“Buy a gift for a dog, and you’ll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don’t have anything to offer to it, it won’t even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.”

“I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he’d see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I’d ever done…I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn’t. There is none.”

“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”

“What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?”

“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.”